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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m flabbergasted that anyone believes there is a committee room with AOs dutifully discussing candidates, carefully pouring over applications, hand selecting those golden nuggets whose stories bring warmth to their hearts. Parents of kids that got in thinking their kids crafted a cohesive story that resonated above all others while parents of kids who didn’t get in bemoan not focusing on a different angle in the essay.

People this is all being done with enrollment management software, consultants, and temporary workers checking off boxes in a rubric while watching White Lotus or YouTube videos of dancing pandas. AI is now being used in some software and I guarantee it will increase fast. Some enrollment management software packages even target admits before they apply grabbing data you didn’t think was part of the equation.

Universities are not transparent about this because they understand how it would be received. [/quote]

True at some schools yes. 
But at T20 - which we are talking about here - you either make that first EM/AI cut automatically and get a Yes, get rejected with a No or are brought to committee.

Talk to T20 Deans - go to the admissions office in February. There will be a giant conference room. Filled. With DND signs.

And for Pete’s sake listen to Dean Coffin. He had 3 fabulous episodes this spring, where he described the process in extraordinary detail.

But I take your point. There are numbers assigned on the top of the file from the enrollment management software showing engagement and yield prediction. That all comes into play in RD.

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