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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If have a senior, and want to know what an AO is doing now with your kid's RD applications, this is eye-opening from that Reddit poster:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1df2ine/comment/l8g63un

The process is generally this: Files are available to read on slate. I read by school groups first. The files I think are promising I can send to second read. I deny the ones I think aren't competitive. Second reads finish as I continue with school groups. Once I finish all of my school groups, I look through my second reads and decide based on all of the information I have now if I want to bring them to committee. Then committee comes around and I present the strongest files I have.

Yes, most students are denied at this stage. There are other schools that do things differently. Like some schools require 2 reads for all applicants. Other schools have two AOs reading the same app at the same time, like a mini committee of sorts. But by and large, denials happen when an AO starts in the school group

The most common reason is going to be vague to you but make sense to all admissions officers on this sub: [b]the student was competitive, but not compelling.[/b] That basically means that in the context we were reading in, that student just didn't have that extra factor to stand out. There's no single universal reason to deny a student. I guess most commonly, grades? That weeds a good number of people out. When you read the ECs and essays and LORs, they're all generic or mid. Things like that usually make up reasons as to why they're competitive but not compelling, aka, still a strong student, but the application is not coming together to help it stand out more.

He also talks about majors being "institutional priorities" and taking undersubscribed majors into consideration when deciding which applicants to bring to committee.[/quote]

This is the reason why certain kids aren’t getting in ED2  notwithstanding great stats.[/quote]

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