Does anyone have specific examples regarding the college admissions process? I know someone who got denied from Georgetown and accepted to Yale, and someone who got deferred EA by Michigan and accepted to Penn ED.
Other examples that are less odd:
Wait-listed by Tufts and rejected by Wesleyan ED2.
Rejected by Michigan and accepted to UCLA.
Rejected Northeastern and wait-listed at Cornell.
Accepted to Penn State’s honors college (~20% acceptance rate, if I recall correctly) and waitlisted at Case Western.
Rejected SMU- in at Washington & Lee
Rejected BC- in at G’town
Rejected Midd- in at Yale
@wisteria100 that’s interesting.
@bodangles I go to Case, they most likely wait listed you because you didn’t show “interest,” that is all.
@annoyingorange that seems fairly routine thought, doesn’t it? Northwestern is slightly more selective than Cornell, I believe.
Colleges do not weight the same application aspects the same way. So even if college X is generally more selective than college Y, there could be some applicants whose characteristics are much more in line with what college X looks for but are a poor match for what college Y looks for, so they get into college X but not college Y.
Also, some colleges admit by division of major, so it is possible that major A at college Y is more selective than major A at college X, even though the overall stats imply that college X is more selective than college Y.
@ucbalumnus how did you like UCB? Would love to get my PhD there.
@SeinfieldFan1 Visited and everything. Their loss, though. I would have loved to go there but not after they waitlisted me.
For PhD study, your academic fit with the *department/i may be much more relevant than for undergraduate study.
Helped a kid this last cycle: accepted to Yale, rejected by Georgetown, admitted as a Feb to Middlebury.
Helped a girl a few cycles ago: rejected to Dartmouth ED, tufts ED2, Tulane EA, Michigan, Barnard. Accepted to uchicago RD, northeastern but w first semester abroad (probably to protect their standardized test stats) and Dickinson college. That had me on pins and needles.
For son:
Rejected: Dartmouth, Tufts, NYU, UVA
WL: Middlebury, BC, UCLA, Richmond
Accepted: Miami, Northeastern, UCSB, UCSD
Nothing too surprising, although the WL from Richmond (a safety school we thought) was a bit of a shocker.
For son:
Accepted: Amherst, Wash U
Waitlisted: Rice (disappointment)
Rejected: Dartmouth (not a disappointment since he didn’t like the school for some reason)
A friend - Accepted at Harvard, Penn, Brown, rejected at WashU.
@Zinhead I think that’s common for Wash U and Northwestern. I know many kids who got into Ivies and not these two. A counselor told me that these schools think the kids will not matriculate there if their scores are absolutely impeccable and so they do not admit them. Protecting their yield.
@RenaissanceMom what… Crazy!
@Zinhead what else is new???
@MaineLonghorn I agree that that is pretty strange.
D19 (two cycles back), not particularly odd results:
Accepted: Tufts, Grinnell, Northeastern, 3 safeties
Waitlisted: Harvard, MIT, Carleton, Vassar
Denied: Brown (deferred ED), Yale, CMU SCS