<p>Anybody get a very unexpected acceptance or rejection? I have heard of such stretches as people being rejected by average state schools and then accepted into great schools, specifically Carnegie Mellon and Emory.</p>
<p>anyone????</p>
<p>Some were rejected at UCLA and Berkeley but accepted to Stanford... go figure.</p>
<p>I know a kid who got into Duke and was rejected from UT. He's even an in state kid.</p>
<p>i have a few friends with weird situations: </p>
<ol>
<li>got accepted to ucla and ucsd, but rejected to ucsb</li>
<li>got accepted to ucb but rejected to ucsd</li>
<li>got accepted to USC with full ride scholarship... got rejected from uci and ucd</li>
<li>got accepted to ucsd but rejected to uci</li>
</ol>
<p>AND THE WEIRDEST ONE OF ALL:</p>
<p>someone got accepted to UPENN but rejected from ucd... </p>
<p>all i can say is.. ***?</p>
<p>I know someone who was rejected from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and accepted to University of Chicago</p>
<p>I've got a friend who got rejected from Duke. He took the hardest classes our school offered, and had at least a 4.5W/4.0UW GPA. He had a 800/750/750 on the SAT, was a National Merit finalist, is our valedictorian, plays a couple sports, etc. etc. To top it all off, he is a urm. We were all shocked when he didn't get in.</p>
<p>I know a person who was rejected from Duke, Northwestern, and Rice, but was accepted to Stanford!!</p>
<p>A good friend of mine was rejected by Berkeley (letters and science) but accepted by MIT. I was shocked. Totally thought it'd be the other way around.</p>
<p>Another friend didn't get into UCLA but got into Cornell. Not as surprising as the previous case, but somewhat unusual.</p>
<p>i got into berkeley bt rejected by stanford. my friend got into stanford bt was rejected by berkeley</p>
<p>My friend got into UCLA and UCB, but not UCSD. Somewhat unusual, I suppose.</p>
<p>the duke one is not that weird. duke is suprisingly as selective as the ivies...which means that their decisions can seem just as random.</p>
<p>most of my acceptances have been weird, i think. So far, i've gotten in everywhere (haven't heard from colby or bowdoin) and it baffles me. as i perouse the admitted student's threads for my schools (all LACs) i am so surpirsed by the people they rejected. most of the rejected people from haverford have MUCH higher sats then me. Oh well, I'm not complaining!</p>
<p>my friend got into northwestern and rejected from NYU. that's about the weirdest one I can think of. another friend got into NYU and got rejected from BU, but that's not as bad.</p>
<p>my friend got into stanford but rejected from ucla. im so happy for her :) two of my friends got into ucb but not ucla, but i guess that's not as surprising as the other situation</p>
<p>Not really too surprising, but rejected from UCB accepted into Stanford.</p>
<p>i got ACCEPTED to JOHNS HOPKINS with a 3.4 UNWEIGHTED GPA.</p>
<p>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1</p>
<p>My friend got told she wasn't good enough for the honors program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but just found out that she got into Northwestern!</p>
<p>For those comparing UIUC and Northwestern, if you're talking about the engineering department, UIUC is much more competitive. It's not a surprise to get rejected from there and accepted to Northwestern.</p>
<p>A friend of mine was rejected from both UCLA and UCB, but she got into Wellesley o.O</p>