"We're enormously difficult to get into. There are just a lot of people we end up rejecting who I can't believe we didn't accept. It's almost a random process," Bates said.
Rosemary Peters Crick, who is in her eighth year of graduate study in French, said the application process is rather brutal.
"It's hell to put in applications. It makes you very vulnerable," she says.
Some prospective doctors of philosophy are persistent.
"We get a fair number of people who come back and try again. We're desirable," Bates said.
A Molecule's Chance in Hell
Students' "credentials, publications, and who they've worked with" are all considered in the application process, says Mary Lamprost, who coordinates admissions for the physics department.
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