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[quote=Anonymous]Does anyone really know what goes on when the admissions committees meet to decide who to accept? How often do they meet? Do they all go through every single file of every applicant one at a time? Do they each vote "admit" or "decline" or "waitlist" and then whoever gets the most votes wins? Do they try to build a class full of a bunch of different students? For example, say, after admitting the legacies and siblings, they need 5 boys and 6 girls. Do they go through the files looking for a few reserved kids and a few leaders, etc? Just wondering how candid they really are behind closed doors. Do they say things like "Oh, not Mikey. He was really clingy and didn't cooperate at all." Or "That Jane was a sweetheart. She did exactly what we asked her to do and used good manners." Or "Not the Johnson Family. The parents came to the interview late and didn't seem very well prepared with any meaningful questions about the school." [/quote]
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