The college application process is a rite of passage for students everywhere, and it’s one that Today hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager know quite well.

The co-hosts reflected on their own experiences applying to colleges when they were young during Tuesday’s (April 23) broadcast of Today With Hoda & Jenna. While Kotb bitterly recalled that she was rejected from William & Mary College, Bush Hager revealed that her experience was quite unique considering she was applying to colleges at the same time as her twin sister, Barbara Bush.

Getting rejected from colleges is a “rite of passage,” she told Kotb, before she sarcastically said, “It happens to almost everybody – except for my sister, Barbara Bush.”

She then pointed out that her sister “got into every school she applied to” despite the fact that she missed one math problem on her SAT. “It’s not a problem. There was no issues,” she said. It sure sounds like there were some issues!

“Anyways, it does happen to everybody,” she concluded.

Bush Hager instead ended up studying at the University of Texas at Austin, while her sister studied at Yale University.

Kotb later revealed that she was also rejected from James Madison University, but she ultimately ended up at Virginia Tech, “which was great,” she said.

Bush Hager has spoken about her experience applying to colleges before, noting that her father, former POTUS George W. Bush, was “the opposite of the college admissions scandal,” per People.

According to her, her father talked her out of applying to Stanford University alongside her sister.

She explained that she “kind of wanted to ride my sister’s coattails to Stanford. Because they have a twin policy.” The twin policy, she explained, made it so that, “If one twin gets in, they automatically let the other in because they don’t want to crush souls.”

“So I was like, ‘Dad, Barbara just read this, I’m going to apply!’ And he was like, ‘No you’re not. Don’t ruin her chances!'” she recalled.

She has previously said that she ultimately chose the University of Texas to stay close to freinds because it was a “stressful time” in her life as her father was campaigning for the presidency.

“I knew this great group of friends that I’d had forever … so I kinda took the easier road,” she said. “I wanted to be protected by them and I did feel really protected.”

Today with Hoda & Jenna airs on weekdays at 10/9c on NBC.