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[quote=Anonymous]Listened to today's Admissions Beat:

The transcript is the most important (lead role). Scores are really not.....

“I can tell you, Lee, that in our admissions committee, we still have five person admissions committees that meet every day all winter to vote to admit students to Yale or not. It's why I have not been able to lose weight for decades because I sit in a room weeks at a time looking at applications. It's also my favorite part of the job.

I mean, what an honor to be able to read these incredible stories from these talented young people around the country and around the world. But in the admissions committee room, we will often pull up the transcript for the five-person committee to look at and to examine to help us understand the story of a student's journey. We'll never look at the testing beyond just the preliminary glance at the start of the application file because I've never been in the committee room where someone said, oh my God, that collection of SAT scores is so compelling.

I want to vote to admit this to students. That's just not how it works.

Same. I think people are surprised by that. Emily, you're starting to laugh.”

From Admissions Beat: Data Dive into the Transcript and Testing, Oct 14, 2025

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