The M.Div is not only a separate faculty/committee from the MTS at Notre Dame, but they also do interviews, while the MTS does not. My guess is that the M.Div applicant did not receive an interview and was thus rejected before the M.Div started the interview process. I have a friend who interviewed for the M.Div during the first week of February, so my guess is that they had informed those who did not receive interviews that they were not moving forward in the process around that same time, hence the posted rejection.