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Something similar happened to a friend of mine when applying for a PhD position, except that due to a strange set of circumstances she actually had every single qualification they where asking for, even the obscure/irrelevant ones. She went in to the interview thinking she basically had it in the bag (I mean how many other people could tick all those obscure boxes) and then it turned really weird once she realized that the reasons the qualification where so specific was that they'd already decided on someone else and where now desperately trying to come up with a reason to turn her down.