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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do know.  That was from the director of a SLAC you would know.  6 min. max - reviewed 3 times - first him, the director  - then two assistants in case he missed something.  Years ago when applied (or should I say decades?), everything was done by hand. down to the mailing and the writing out of the $50 check so one applied to say, four choices.  So we applied to only a few schools.  And it was difficult typing out all those applications.  Now all it is is a few changes in the essay and a push of the button, so kids can file to 25 schools.  So this Director's point was that whereas his school would get let's say 7,000 applications decades ago for a class of 400, now it's 30,000 for the same sized class.  Oh, BTW, if you are legacy you should get a meeting with the director of admissions.  MY SLAC did that for my kid.

BTW, the same Director constantly reminds everyone whatever you do, remember to change the name of the school in the essay.  If you send an application saying "I've always wanted to go to Pepperdine to be near the ocean" and the application goes to Williams, the file is tossed.  Files also are not read if late. [/quote]

This is the problem with the internet. Some decent information included with some pretty obvious bs.  Yes, grades and test scores matter as the first hoop to jump through.  And yes the readers are very efficient at reading files. They are double checked and triple checked.

However, where you went off the rails was the silly 30,000 application number for a LAC.  With a class size of 400.  It is more like 7000.  7000 is still an enormous amount but 30,000 is just silly and untrue.

In fact Harvard had about 35, 000 applications. They accepted about 2000 students for the coming year.  Harvard is not a SLAC.

Folks, check the common data sets for the schools your kid in interested in.[/quote]

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