@Elliandre my sim has a high school A grade and so she has a 10/20 chance rather then a 5/20 one if you take it from Carls. However, without any skilling she landed none of the distinguished degrees every single time I tried.
When I am talking about a high level Research I actually mean anywhere between 7 or 10. It is interesting to try out what skill unlocks what, but I am currently running a lot of tests for another bug. If soneone has more data on this please share them with us.
Also you said that the wait is 3 days. I find that odd. I've had a lot of retries trying to kickstart my actual game and I've found that after exactly 24h of either the application or the scholarship form the computer will be able to tell you the result. The mail nearly always arrives at the first chance after that.
