<p>vanillachocolate,</p>
<p>Both certificate programs were under-enrolled; there are more spots available than the number of people that meet the admission standard (which may be mostly As in all the pre-reqs). The pre-reqs are tough and highly quantitative. They can be a bit intimidating to many students. There may not be that many people that want to pursue the application at the first place. Some people may figure that the pre-reqs could ruin their GPAs and then the whole plan would backfire; others may think they don’t need all that technical courses from Kellogg to get IB/consulting jobs anyway and so it doen’t seem to worth to put up with all that stress and risk. It seems to me if you do well in all those pre-reqs, you will get in because the rigor of the pre-reqs already does most of the filtering.</p>