A 30,000 app question

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>I pondered about how college admissions work last night. No, not how you should do to get </p>

<p>in like google suggested, but how does an admissions committee get through all those </p>

<p>applications to pick out the 1300 or whatever the number. I thought and thought and still </p>

<p>could not figure it out. Do they read/sort through each one by alphabetical order? By SAT </p>

<p>scores? By grades? By regions? By race? Or by economic status? Do they read through all </p>

<p>applications before choosing and debating? Or is that done one by one? What happens </p>

<p>when the 1300 number is reached and there still are applications not yet read? </p>

<p>Anyone with some insights?</p>

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<p>just found a New Yorker article on how college admissions at top schools have become 'a casino on Mars." </p>

<p>[The</a> Thin Envelope : The New Yorker](<a href=“http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/04/07/030407crat_atlarge]The”>http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/04/07/030407crat_atlarge)</p>

<p>Not going to bother put it in nice little words, you all can just click the actual link. It’s a good article if you wanna know some of the answers to some of my questions.</p>

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<p>You might want to read “The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College” by Jacques Steinberg. Excellent book all about the admissions process one year at Wesleyan.</p>

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<p>SOMEDAY (if i get accepted) I will investigate about how the univ select the applicants! the same day i will post it here!</p>

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<p>I second fireandrain’s suggestion of The Gatekeepers. I thoroughly enjoyed getting an inside glimpse of the admissions process.</p>

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<p>that book was referenced in the link</p>

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<p>Read “A is for Admission”</p>

<p>It’s by a former Dartmouth admission officer and gives the low-down on the formula they used to rank applicants.</p>

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<p>Yes, I highly recommend “A is for Admission,” along with Michelle Hernandez’s other book “Acing the College Application.” (that is, if you haven’t applied yet)</p>

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<p>Not all schools use the AI, every school has its own admissions practices.</p>