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[quote=Anonymous][QUOTE]No, you are wrong. In addition to the director and assistant directors of admissions, there are multiple people assigned to certain geographical areas of the United States. Those representatives spend a great deal of their time on the road right now visiting the schools they are familiar with and touring the high schools they are not familiar with. They are giving joint presentations in their assigned geographical area with other schools. They are touring all the private boarding schools in the areas. They are visiting and meeting with your local high school student. Then there are the representatives assigned to the various countries. They, too, are out on the road this time of year touring and meeting with prosptective applicants. They are not back at home base reading essays. The first cull goes to the contract readers who are paid by the hour to pass through the EA or ED applications and mark the file with GPA/rank and test scores and whether the student is a URM, first-generation, low-income, legacy, "development case" (meaning parents have money that might inure to the school), etc. Only after passing a school's standards for GPA and test scores does the application go on to be actually read by the lowest member in the geographical unit. That person reviews only those applications that have passed the GPA and test score mark and reviews the letters of recommendations and looks for problems or issues. Only after that pass is the essay written. The average time spent reading by all the people in the admissions office is less than 6 minutes. [/QUOTE]

Which schools does this apply to? Certain not all because the college rep schedule is pretty thin right now compared to what it looked like in September and October.

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