Do you know anyone who placed way too high or too low? what happened?

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I am thinking about the graduate students who went to programs that were far too advanced for them or they were far too advanced for. Do you know anyone like this? Did they adapt? Fail? Transfer? Give up?

Did the professors like them? Hate them? Ignore them? What about the students in the same cohort?

it's harder for me to imagine poor students who ended up in great programs than it is to imagine great students who ended up in terrible programs. But I'm sure it happens to someone, somewhere................