<p>I know Dan said that Tufts syndrome doesn’t exist and that applicants are never rejected because they are too qualified, but when I looked at the previous “class of 2012 RD results thread” and the “class of 2011 RD results” one, I noticed that MANY 2300+, 4.0, nearly perfect applicants were either waitlisted or just flat out rejected. It seemed to me that actually many of the 2100-2250 applicants were accepted. Now, I’m not saying the ones who were accepted were by any means inferior to those rejected, but some of these kids obviously had slightly lower stats than the others. I don’t think all of these higher applicants messed up an interview or had poorly written essays. I mean, sure, it’s possible that one or two used Tufts as a safety and it became quite evident, however I doubt all of them were like this. How would you explain this?</p>