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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally think that the Common App and TO was the worst thing to happen to college admissions, and that most schools should go the route that GU goes - require subject tests, their own app, require testing, etc. [/quote]

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Even so- you can have a perfect standardize test score, 5s all APs…and solid/great everything else and still get deferred.  It’s still holistic review.[/quote]

“Holistic” review…honestly, given the surge in applications,[b] I would bet dollars to doughnuts there are a bunch of twenty-something-year-old admissions counselors who just open apps, hit decline and move on.[/b] With very few exceptions, the admissions staff simply have not added enough staff to fairly and holistically review all 100,000 apps or whatever huge number schools get nowadays.[/quote]

Yep.  This definitely happens.   Can you imagine---it's Friday afternoon....  you have 500 apps to go through.  Or you just decline them all and start your weekend.    :wink: [/quote]

You are both wildly incorrect, thankfully. [/quote]

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