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[quote=Anonymous]OP -- luck and randomness.  As you can see, people have different answers above based on what they perceive worked for them.

But it is far from a perfect process.  The admissions people are just humans, and they only know if the people who get in then go on to be decent students.  They rarely get good information about the success or worthiness of students they didn't take, so they can't even learn from their own data.

Meanwhile, there are so many idiosyncratic and subjective variables.  Was the interviewer too late to stop at Starbucks that morning?  Was your child having friend drama that week?  Was the teacher writing a recommendation super busy at the time?  Did the admissions person read your file just before or just after lunch?  How many siblings are applying at the same time and what are their profiles? Etc etc.

At the extremes, there are some applications which are clear decisions.  For the bulk of applications, it could go either way.

The decisions have real consequences.  But that doesn't mean there is some sort of profound basis for them.[/quote]

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