<i>a school known to the admissions department</i><p>It&#x27;s worth noting that this can be an issue for graduate admissions too: When I was studying in Oxford, emails would come around the department on a regular basis asking &quot;does anyone know anything about the University of FooBar?  One of their students is applying&quot;.  (Of course, Oxford is unusual in the extent to which it draws graduate students from around the world.)