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[quote=Anonymous]This is Duke:

1	First review would be from an admissions officer (or sometimes a seasonal reader) who was trained on how to read apps.

2	Ratings were given in 6 categories with a 1-5 scale: Quality of Academic Program, Academic Achievement, Recommendations, Essays, Extracurriculars and Standardized Testing. Highest score was 30, lowest score was 6.

3	Second review was by an admissions officer familiar with that region/high school.

4	Sometimes a third review is done for discordant reviews, or with legacy/special cases.

5	About 10% of the applicants are “auto rejected” if the ratings are too low, and also similarly another set % is sent to the “admit” category.

6	The rest of the apps are reviewed by committee. Committee votes to accept, deny or waitlist.

7	Those in the accepted pile are then whittled down by the Dean of Admissions in a process he called “sculpting the class”. This is where the class is fine tuned for institutional priorities.

8	Along with this alumni were invited to interview candidates. We turned in a short response along with a rating for each candidate. I don’t think the alumni reports were used much except to keep alumni engaged.
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