The Appeals Process for Admissions (please help)

JenniferClint
Thu, 31 May 2018 20:26:01 +0000

@happy1 That’s interesting. I wonder if it would be different if she had won a science Nobel or a Fields Medal at the age of 17 (virtually impossible and completely unprecedented).

I know that Princeton made an exception for Dick Feynman even though he failed the History and English portions of the graduate entrance exam.

Duke made the mistake of expelling George Church (one of the pioneers of CRISPR) from its PhD program because he failed to pass his courses (he was spending too much time in the lab).

Michigan admitted Stephen Smale to its math PhD program even though he had a checkered undergraduate record and he went on to win a Fields Medal.

It appears as though graduate schools are more tolerant of eccentric geniuses.