<p>Well personally I was accepted to Clemson, Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Purdue.</p>
<p>But I was waitlisted (and then denied) at NC State. People still ask me how that’s possible. Probably because they don’t take many OOS students.</p>
<p>I know of someone who was rejected by U of Chicago this year with a perfect ACT.</p>
<p>“In at notre dame , rejected umd cp (our state school) ea”</p>
<p>not legit.</p>
<p>“George W. Bush Harvard Business 1972”</p>
<p>We have a winner. Thread over. No one can top that.</p>
<p>"Yes, the Harvard/FSU one was legit. She graduated a year ago, and I don’t know her well, so I don’t know the exact circumstances. I know that Harvard was the only Ivy League school she got into (rejected at all others). She thinks it’s because she attended their summer program.</p>
<p>I don’t get why she didn’t get into FSU. Craziness."</p>
<p>The Florida State admissions office probably was not used to seeing SAT and ACT scores that high and probably thought the application was a joke.</p>
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<p>That is not crazy at all. I would guess that there are many people with 36 on the ACT who are rejected every year. Scores matter, but they certainly aren’t everything, especially at a school like UChicago, which has grown significantly more selective in recent years.</p>
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I know of someone who was rejected by U of Chicago this year with a perfect ACT.</p>
<p>That is not crazy at all. I would guess that there are many people with 36 on the ACT who are rejected every year. Scores matter, but they certainly aren’t everything, especially at a school like UChicago, which has grown significantly more selective in recent years."</p>
<p>She also had a number of scholarship offers from other schools, was a highly ranked student at a very rigorous college prep high school where everyone in the class goes to college and I believe won the school’s equivalent of Most Outstanding Student Award. So she just didn’t have a high test score. I think she ended up taking a full merit ride to Rhodes College.</p>
<p>Accepted every single UC School, Columbia, Wellesley, Brandeis…rejected at USC</p>
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<p>Still, no rejection to a school as selective as UChicago could be considered “crazy.”</p>
<p>can someone here give me a quick tutorial on how to use the quote function here? I can’t seem to get it to copy the quote I want to reply to…</p>
<p>Accepted to Brown and waitlisted at Vandy, rejected at Case Western.</p>
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<p>my friend got accepted to UC Berkley, Yale, and Harvard.</p>
<p>but not any other school in the US.</p>
<p>normansu, unless you tell us which schools your friend got rejected from we can’t determine whether they are “crazy admissions decisions”</p>
<p>woops, my bad</p>
<p>applied and rejected:</p>
<p>UCSD
UC Davis
UC Irvine
Columbia
MIT
Princeton
UC Riverside
UCSC
University of Texas, Austin
Stanford</p>
<p>^ Was he or she an international applicant? That is the only explanation I can think of.</p>
<p>In at Harvard, Yale, Penn, Columbia, UChicago.
Waitlisted at Pitzer.</p>
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<p>Anytime I see a waitlisting at a school that is clearly lower in selectivity than schools to which one was accepted, I suspect yield protection.</p>
<p>Perhaps. I really don’t know what to think about Pitzer. It has gotten quite selective in the past few years – I think it’s acceptance rate is around 20% or so, but the students’ stats are certainly well below those of the students at the colleges to which I was accepted. My guidance counselor told me I could basically treat Pitzer as a safety. I took her word on it even though I knew it was becoming increasingly selective. It could be that they were trying to protect their yield, or it could be that they truly did not think I was a good match and would fit in better elsewhere. I won’t lie – it did hurt to be waitlisted by Pitzer because I really liked it and I thought I was a good fit. I know Pitzer looks for very unique students, and not getting in made me feel like I wasn’t unique enough.</p>
<p>People have suggested yield protection for two other schools at which I was waitlisted – Duke and Tufts. Yield protection is certainly a possibility, but I don’t want to be arrogant and assume that I “should have” gotten into these schools. They are, after all, still two of the most selective colleges in the country. Maybe the admissions committees did not think I was a good fit for the student body or academic programs.</p>
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<p>It is called Tufts Syndrome. :)</p>