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[quote=Anonymous]I am suspicious of big schools with heavy app loads reading these long applications.

Michigan has hundreds of external readers, many in their first year of reading. I tried to look up their hiring patterns a month ago to find they were hiring people in September for this cycle.

I would argue many of us work in business. I've spent more than 30 years in tech, with decade-long stints at Microsoft and Google both and some time in start ups. I dont know about ridiculous intellectual exercises - that's not the first thing that comes to mind about my job. We value communication skills, deliverable results, creative problem solving, forecasting, predictable outcomes, things like that.

If you looked at the apps of the kids who didn't get into Ross, you wouldn't learn what not to do. If you gave the same apps to the same team, but shuffled the files between the readers, you wouldn't get even close to the same results.

It's kind of madness the way colleges do this. I suspect AI will help a lot. They'll use data on past performance of kids coming from your area, your school, with not only grades but leadership in club xyz or grades by teacher. It will get better.

But right now, it's 3/4 application data and 1/4 vibes, man. And as such, I think you have to tell your teen, do your best, but put a clear limit on how much time you'll spend on this .. you don't want to spend all your time on this app to the detriment of your others. Traffic all your work the smartest way: if you have 3 videos to do for your applications, prepare for them and then shoot them at once. If you have 5 essays across all your applications that touch on similar themes, that's the one to workshop with your teacher.

And then let go and let god. Which is not a business thing to do, but this isn't a repeatable, quantitative process. It's holistic which is another way of saying bullshitty. There are a million roads, especially for business, and you'll be fine.

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