I was trying to explain this to my teacher girlfriend tonight in terms she could understand. I said it would be like if she was a teacher at another school, and in her first year of teaching, one of her senior students got into Harvard because they were a legacy, but got in nonetheless. Then, in her second year, one of her students got into USC, pretty good! The next year her student got waitlisted at University of Nevada - Reno. Then, in her last year, her school paid her 2 years salary to never teach another student at their institution ever again. Then she got a call from a Dallas area code Comfort Inn and wham Academic Dean at Kansas State University.