Weird acceptance/rejection patterns
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:34 pm
So my mom often browses through the grad student admission forums for undergrads at the Chinese universities (e.g. that of her alma mater USTC), and she sometimes notes that some students have really weird acceptance/rejection patterns (one was rejected by all 15 but harvard; another was rejected by all but MIT). Of course, these patterns are usually the exception rather than the norm. But I'm wondering - has this ever happened in the case of domestic applications too? (perhaps in the case of highly unusual applications where one really stands out in one area, and has major weaknesses in another area?) Graduate admissions is A LOT more random than undergrad admissions, so I can see it as more likely to happen than undergrad admissions.