<p>i was wait-listed at GWU and Skidmore but accepted at BC :)</p>
<p>i have a friend who got waitlisted at Tulane but was admitted to William and Mary. Also a friend who got waitlisted at UNC Chapel Hill but accepted to Georgetown and UC Berkeley</p>
<p>I don't think this is too unusual, but I was rejected from UCSD, but accepted into UCB.</p>
<p>got into BC with massive FA, but waitlisted at BU lol, found it pretty funny</p>
<p>Some strange cases:</p>
<ol>
<li>Friend got a likely letter from Columbia, got into UC Berkeley, but rejected from UC Davis and UCLA</li>
<li>Friend accepted to MIT, UCLA, UC Berkeley, West Point, but rejected from UC Irvine</li>
<li>Friend accepted to Stanford, rejected from UCLA and UC Berkeley</li>
<li>I got into Stanford, Pomona, Swarthmore, Berkeley but rejected from UCLA</li>
</ol>
<p>stanford seems to have by far the weirdest and most sporadic admissions</p>
<p>I've been waitlisted at 5 schools I expected to get into and rejected by my reaches. I want to kill myself. Sorry this post doesn't necessarily apply. I'm going to go live in the forest for the next 4 years of my life. Yay.</p>
<p>I agree with the weirdness of Stanford. One of my close friends was rejected by UCLA, UCB, Duke and Northwestern, but accepted to Stanford! Pretty cool, but nobody's quite sure how to explain it.</p>
<p>My own admissions story is externally weird so far...</p>
<p>Accepted: Middlebury, Oberlin, TCNJ (lol)
Waitlisted: Villanova
Denied: Lehigh</p>
<p>I can explain most of that though.</p>
<p>However weird Stanford admissions is... is magnified, because it's the only one out of HPYS and the rest of the ivies that has officially released its decisions.</p>
<p>Rejected by UCSD, accepted to UCLA</p>
<p>Guys, I think that the colleges who you consider "weaker" are rejecting certain applicants maybe because of one or more of these reasons:</p>
<p>a) They want to protect their yield and fish out those who are just applying for safety and most probably won't matriculate at their college.</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>b) These colleges just aren't the "weaker" colleges you've grown to know. They may be getting increasingly difficult now. Don't be surprised how far up the list they'll end up on US news rankings "Americas Best Colleges"</p>
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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.
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<p>This is true, but she applied to LAS--which does make the rejection surprising. She's also ranked 4th out of 514 students and president of NHS, and her essays were amazing. Also, about 15 other people from my school with much lower stats who applied to the various schools, mostly LAS, got invited to the Honors program--but she was flat out DENIED.</p>
<p>I was rejected from San Diego State but accepted to Cal.</p>
<p>I was rejected by GWU and accepted to Amherst</p>
<p>waitlisted by JHU, accepted to Northwestern...</p>
<p>^ Me too... But I don't think that's unusual.</p>
<p>Also, some people who were rejected by UCs but got into Stanford/MIT/etc may be URMs? :S</p>
<p>I find it slightly strange that I got into Northwestern and NYU Stern but got waitlisted at Georgetown (McDonough).</p>
<p>i got waitlisted at both lafayette and carnegie mellon, the former was a safety and the latter a low reach, but accepted to USC, applied to all as electrical engineering</p>
<p>D's classsmate rejected by University of Michigan, accepted to Northwestern, waitlisted at WashU.</p>