Anyone attending a school originally suggested by a professor outside your subfield?

[Catria]

I understand that, in many cases, professors can make suggestions as far as applying to graduate programs is concerned.

 

The school I end up attending, Minnesota, was actually suggested to me by a professor that I asked to read my SOP (due to my supervisor advising me to have it read by a professor outside my subfield)... and, while that professor was a Minnesota alumnus, he was a condensed matter experimentalist, while I am a particle cosmologist.