<p>to Brown and Yale.</p>
<p>Waitlisted to Harvard and Columbia.</p>
<p>and accepted to Princeton.</p>
<p>My point is, is it true that schools like Brown will usually reject someone with really good stats and just everything because even if Brown accepted him/her, he/she will most likely go somewhere else and thus, lead to Brown having a lower matriculation rate?</p>
<p>I remember reading something about this, but wasn’t sure if it’s true. Though, I think it’s logical in a sense…</p>
<p>No that it totally false. Brown is fully aware of the capriciousness of the admissions process. There are no guarantees that any student will be accepted anywhere, so no assumptions are made that an applicant will get into any of the Ivies and therefore get rejected on that basis.</p>
<p>I guess Yale does the same thing then? ridiculous.</p>
<p>was this student a legacy at princeton? there are a million reasons why this happened, besides the fact that college admissions are seemingly random and nonsensical. i doubt brown has tufts syndrome, to answer your question.</p>
<p>Brown has a unique application. Perhaps the applicant filled it out lazily or ran out of time to really make it immaculate.</p>
<p>i agree with eating food. we can never know how the applicant wrote his/her supp essays for Brown, and even Yale. both have unique aspects to the supplement.</p>
<p>That just goes to show the unpredictability with the admissions process, not necessarily that Brown, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia all thought the applicant would end up somewhere "better." </p>
<p>Apply to a diverse range of schools (i.e. that usually does not translate to five of the eight ivies) that you would be happy at, and that's really the best anyone can do.</p>
<p>I think the whole idea of 'tufts syndrome' is stupid. It was just fabricated by people with high test scores whining that they didn't get in to the school they believed they deserved entry to. Reality check: students don't determine whether or not they're a good fit for a school; adcoms do.</p>
<p>Same thing happened to my neighbor. Denied Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Harvard; waitlisted Cornell; in Yale after deferral. He wasn't legacy.</p>
<p>xSteven. I disagree. Washington University in St. Louis is infamous at our school for rejecting kids with too high of scores. Many kids are playing with this and sending in lower ACT scores so that they get in. I realize that essays are important, but anyone with over a 33 and 4.4 was rejected, while people in the 30-32 range and a 4.1-4.3 range were fine. That's no coincidence. The people with the high test scores were in fact very involved people, many with diverse interests like sports, clubs, etc. They realize that many people are (and they are!) applying as a safety school, so the only way to ensure acceptance really is ED.</p>
<p>Is it possible that different schools look at applications slightly different ways?</p>
<p>Brown does not do this. It's been reported at a few places, but it's far from common.</p>
<p>This is far more common for programs involving scholarships. Students who may receive full ride scholarships are sometimes put on a waitlist for the scholarship based on where else they are applying and likelihood of matriculating. For actual admissions this is rare if real at all and certainly not true within the Ivy League.</p>
<p>Look at the stats on CollegeBoard. If Brown really did this than the top of their middle 50% range would be lower than it is.</p>
<p>Tufts Syndrome schools don't reject, they waitlist. This way, if you really do want to go to that school, you will be able to get off the waitlist.</p>
<p>For the record, I've seen this happen at schools like Tufts, WashU, Emory, Vanderbilt (to Northeasterners), Muhlenberg, and more recently: Cornell. (Last year, a friend got into Dartmouth, Harvard, and Yale RD but was waitlisted at Cornell. He read Cornell's decision first and was devastated for about 15 minutes...)</p>
<p>Tufts Syndrome wouldn't happen at Brown, and certainly not Yale. (unless you wrote your essay about how much you hated Brown or Yale).</p>
<p>HA no </p>
<p>Brown is hard to get into, and every admissions committee is different. THAT'S why. </p>
<p>there's no tufts syndrome at brown, and probably not even at tufts any more.</p>
<p>Dartmoose</p>
<p>excellent call on the waitlist/rejection distinction for tufts syndrome.</p>