<p>My friend was accepted at Harvard Yale Princeton Stanford Columbia Wharton but rejected at Washu....</p>
<p>Just to show Washu's interesting admissions process...</p>
<p>Remember that CA schools have thousands more applicants than many east coast elite schools. For example, Harvard's 2005 applicant pool was 22,796 and UCLA's was 42,208. Despite that, Harvards admit rate was more selective at 9.1% vs. UCLA's 26.7%. Either way the odds suck.</p>
<p>D was.....
accepted: HYP, Dart, Columbia, Brown, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore...
waitlisted: Scripps.</p>
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I hear MIT's unique because they offer a joint program in Master of engineering / M.B.A. I'm really interested in getting that later.
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<p>Not exactly. MIT offers a joint SM (not an MEng) + Sloan MBA (or optionally, an SM in Management Science). It's called the MIT LFM program, a highly innovative program run jointly by the Sloan School and the School of Engineering.</p>
<p><a href="http://lfmsdm.mit.edu/lfm/academic.html%5B/url%5D">http://lfmsdm.mit.edu/lfm/academic.html</a></p>
<p>I know this thread is about crazy undergrad admissions stories, not graduate school, but I still think it's interesting. I know a guy who applied to MBA programs, and got admitted to the MIT LFM Program (the joint Sloan MBA + Master's of Science in Engineering program), the Northwestern MMM program (joint MBA from Kellogg + Master's of Engineering Management), Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, and the Haas School of Business at UCBerkeley. He also got waitlisted at the Executive MBA program at UPenn Wharton (no, not the regular Wharton MBA program, but the higher-end Executive Wharton MBA program).</p>
<p>He got outright rejected from the Yale School of Management. </p>
<p>If you don't understand why that is ridiculous, just take a look at the rankings of those respective schools.</p>
<p>I have a friend who was accepted at Columbia, Tufts, Northwestern, and several others, but waitlisted at Bucknell.</p>