Anonymous
07/23/2025 07:06
Subject: AO reading and review process
Anonymous wrote:Did you know that the first reader at Stanford can reject an application without anyone else ever looking at it? This is why that Admittedly guy (former Stanford AO I believe) says not to REA to Stanford if you don’t have a hook. The reader your app gets could be new and so your REA app is more likely to be rejected due to inexperience. By the time RD rolls around, they have more experience.
Don’t know if this is true at other schools.
If the trained reader knows it’s a clean “no,” why would you want more reads?
People here get apoplectic over how long it takes to get results and you are mad they don’t slow down to give more time to the non-competitive applications?
Anonymous
07/23/2025 07:01
Subject: AO reading and review process
Some of the part time readers have been doing that work longer than the AOs. Be careful about making assumptions.
Anonymous
07/22/2025 22:31
Subject: AO reading and review process
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s not about public/ private divide.
Chicago, director AO reviews one single school, Stuy, which is a public.
the head of admissions at UChicago reads Stuy. Not any ol AO. My oldest went to stuy and he came to speak. At the time I think he was second from top. He's a stuy alum, I think?
Nondorf also reads Collegiate and some other private schools in NYC as well.
Anonymous
07/22/2025 22:27
Subject: AO reading and review process
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:your HS is the single most important thing, well beyond grades and tests.
there are good high schools where I live who have literally never sent a kid to HYP.
💯 this every day.
Why do you think 40% of the ivies and Ivy+ are comprised of private HS kids when they make up less than 10% of high school population
Only about 35% of Americans graduate from college. I expect the percentage private high school students that successfully graduate college is far higher than 35%. Not surprising that they make up almost half the Ivy population.
Anonymous
07/22/2025 21:45
Subject: AO reading and review process
Anonymous wrote:your HS is the single most important thing, well beyond grades and tests.
there are good high schools where I live who have literally never sent a kid to HYP.
💯 this every day.
Why do you think 40% of the ivies and Ivy+ are comprised of private HS kids when they make up less than 10% of high school population