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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a business. Every app gives them money. Marketing LOL[/quote]

Yes, but it's not about the application fee -- it's about getting the largest application pool, which benefits the school in numerous [i]other [/i]ways.

At an average of $65, when you think the of the time and effort that goes into every application and the costly systems behind them, minus the cost of the marketing it would take to drive those numbers, and discount fee waivers etc... it's easy to see that "generating application fees" is one of the worst and most unprofitable business ideas ever.  It's not why they do it.[/quote]

Partially disagree, PP.  the fees are not completely irrelevant to the marketing effort.  A school at Chicago’s level simply isn’t going to look at applicants below the mid-1300s unless they are serious jocks or otherwise distinguishable from the regular pool.  Each application that falls in the sort below the mid-1300s will get exactly five seconds of actual attention and will then be routinely rejected.  In other words, it appears that they are soliciting applications that they have exactly zero intention of ever considering.  
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Check their ROI. Real lame for what they charge. Go to UVA.

They probably let a software do the work so adcom is seeing only scores above a certain level. Kind of like a televangelist segregating all the prayer request letters in one pile (donation checks in another) and saying a generic prayer. [/quote]

U Chicago’s website says every application goes through the same holistic review process.  Also if they did what you suggest they would not be able to on the test optional submissions, so that would be self-defeating.

You can call their admissions office and ask how much time and how many reads each application gets.  At most elite schools, every app gets a minimum 2 reads at about 20 minutes each.[/quote]

I have no interest in these people. There’s always some angle to what they do. [/quote]

Yes, they are all devious monsters who execute their highly profitable plots on the backs of the broken dreams of the cannon fodder of high school students.

So silly.

Almost to a man they are hardworking, principled, underpaid people trying to build the best class that meets the needs of their institutions.

If you actually knew any, you’d know that.[/quote][/quote]

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