<p>I’ve had a friend (lived in Atlanta) who truly wanted to attended Georgia Tech in order to stay close to family and friends…rejected at Georgia Tech, accepted to MIT. Tufted?</p>
<p>“If in fact you were really dying to go to Tulane, they are giving you a chance to tell them that.”</p>
<p>But for many applicants which require need based aid in order to attend top private universities (like myself), getting waitlisted basically takes a school out of the running. Waitlisted students are only given whatever funds are “left over”, which could be nothing if the school is so cruel as to do that. So a “safety” school that really would of been a top choice if given a good finaid package goes to the “can’t attend” pile.</p>
<p>WUSTL. If our kids want to apply there it’s with their own money. Burned once was enough.</p>
<p>I really don’t think the UCs or even UCI has tuft’s syndrome… </p>
<p>I got into UCI extremely early with very high stats.</p>
<p>Trinity University, Texas. Wait listed a friend of mine even before the application deadlines were over. And sent him an email asking to withdraw his application if he feels like Trinity is not the one for him. LOL</p>
<p>Another one is Lafayette College. I really never thought that they were like this. A girl from Nepal was accepted for AMS scholars at Colgate University this year. Immediately after this, someone informally told the international admissions officer at Lafayette (Eugene Gabay) about her acceptance(There is a guy from her high school studying at Lafayette). And Eugene Gabay sent her an email asking to withdraw her application from Lafayette because she had already been accepted by Colgate! You can just see how much that sucks. She was so disappointed with that email that she immediately withdrew her RD application from Lafayette.</p>
<p>Regarding the Colgate acceptance – it reads like that was an Early Decision acceptance. That could well explain why Lafayette asked her to withdraw her RD application.</p>
<p>UCSC definitely has it. Friend was accepted to Stanford (without legacy) ED and was rejected at UC Santa Cruz. LOLz</p>
<p>^maybe they were an athlete?
I think UCI has it for sure. Im guessing they have a minimum GPA requirement for their honors program, so for all the kiddos who are below that req. but have hella high stats they wl them because they’ll still prolly get into other schools.</p>
<p>Admissions haven’t come out this year but I think Barnard gets it a bit, interest is really important.</p>
<p>my friend wasn’t an athlete. just an indian band geek.</p>
<p>@Mom22039 No, it was not an ED acceptance. AMS scholars aren’t ED people. They are the best candidates who apply for RD and receive their decisions almost a month before the actual RD admission notification date. You can check about it in Colgate’s sub-forum too.</p>
<p>Absolutely GW. Rejected at George Washington, accepted to Georgetown… recommendation for both was actually a GW graduate who knew me really well which surprised me, meh it turned out better though haha</p>
<p>I am second in my class, I have a 4.0 GPA UW, I got a 2310 on my SATs and all 5’s on the 6 AP exams that I have taken, and I got into GW. GW won’t reject OVERQUALIFIED applicants, but they will reject UNDER-INTERESTED applicants. The admissions counselor who came to my school specifically told us that if you live near GW and you don’t visit campus, it hurts your application. They don’t want to accept a student who isn’t interested in their school, so please stop thinking they should automatically accept you because you have great scores and essays. You also have to show that you actually want to go to GW.</p>
<p>RPI. I got into UC Davis and University of Illinois but was waitlisted there.</p>
<p>Ckr SO glad that you posted!! As noted in another thread this happens every year… students who consider themselves overqualified for GW,being wait listed or rejected. Then they proceed to trash GW, say they have Tufts syndrome and express their shock that this relatively safe school could be so ignorant as to deny them admission!! Read the posts in the GW thread. Admissions have a way of sorting through those applicants who as you so appropriately state, are UNDER-interested!!</p>
<p>Swarthmore, JHU, Cornell, and UChicago definitely do not have Tufts syndrome. They all accept ~20% of applicants and simply can’t admit all of the students that they would like to accept. For example, I have a friend who has accepted at Harvard and rejected at MIT. Obviously he was a both applicant for both schools, but MIT just found that they had other priorities for their class. Likewise, some students will complain of an unfair decision if they are accepted at Stanford and rejected at say Duke, but it’s important to understand that both schools can only accept a fraction of the applicants that they’d like to have in their class and that decisions will ultimately be somewhat arbitrary.</p>
<p>I can vouch that I have seen first hand of “tufts-syndrome” @ Uchicago in my school. Granted acceptance at UChicago is just as mysterious as ivies but there have been some shocking acceptances/rejections.</p>
<p>does tufts syndrome ever happen with ED?</p>
<p>^ that would not make sense.</p>