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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You are responding in the middle of the night - where are you? California? Abroad?

My two cents: Read a bit more about the process directly from selective private top colleges (the public schools absolutely do some of this EM stuff you mention as a gating item). There are a few former T10 AO on Reddit that I follow (I've posted their comments above and elsewhere on this site)....they have described the AO review process in detail. Mind you, it's limited to selective schools. So if you are talking Northeastern or something, then yes, your process is 100% correct.

Interestingly, this past fall, we heard something new from our private CCO - [b]whether or not a human actually reads your kid's application is determined by your high school. If it's a large non-feeder public school, it's an AI/auto filter, much as you describe. We were told all of the applications from our high school will be read by a human (and not a temp reader, but the regional rep who comes to our high school) at T25 and most SLACs[/b]..... It's a horrible, unfair part of this process. People don't talk about this enough, but there are differences out of the gate before your application is even reviewed. Maybe someone should do a post on that.

I imagine with more focus on full pay this bifurcation only becomes a more acute divide.[/quote]

wow, interesting. i've never heard about this.[/quote]

I have heard about this. Happens all the time in private schools. Parents are clueless unless someone figured it out and posts about it. [/quote]

Look and see who is coming to your HS every fall. Be strategic with apps - those are the schools that want kids from your HS.

The regional reps know the private schools VERY well and often have a #/quota they want to hit (though they'll never admit it). 
Look at your high school's admissions results each year as well. Not for # attending, but # admitted.[/quote]

Spot on.

Parent of private school senior.[/quote]

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