<p>Anybody familiar w/ the decision making process at either NYU or Boston College?</p>
<p>Or maybe even in general, do schools only start reading your application/supplements after you've sent in EVERYTHING? What happens if you decide to send your common application and the recs first but decides to hold your SAT I scores until let's say, past the deadline. Would they consider your application?</p>
<p>When do readings begin? right after the dealine? Or does it take sometime for them to sort out the files and get everything together?</p>
<p>question-do schools only start reading your application/supplements after you've sent in EVERYTHING? When do readings begin? right after the deadline?</p>
<p>answer-CORRECT and CORRECT.
get everything in on time in order to have you application considered.</p>
<p>if you're not legacy:
they go through and look at just GPA and SAT, and throw out any that are just plain horrible combinations...then they go through a second time, and look to see if you have even a list of ECs, and if you dont, and your GPA/SAT isnt stellar, you get chucked too...then they start to read essays, and if your essay isnt good and your GPA/SATs suck, you're thrown out...when they get down to having a pile of decent applications, they throw them down a stairs and the first 500 (or however many they take) they see that are facing upwards are accepted</p>
<p>if you're legacy:
they "look" at your whole application while having a smoke and drinking some Early Times whiskey (worst stuff ever! you might as well drink brake fluid...but it gets the job done rather quickly)...then accept you</p>
<p>After the applications are received the admissions committee gathers in a conclave in the Alumni Hall to select the freshman class. Theoretically, any person can be chosen. In practice, a disproportionate number of URMs, rich kids, famous people, legacies, and athletes are picked. Four ballots are generally conducted each day -- two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Each time an unsuccessful pair of ballots has been completed, chemicals are added to the ballot papers before they are burned in a small stove. This produces black smoke which is visible above the roof of the Hall. When the new class has been chosen, the papers are burned with the addition of other chemicals to produce white smoke. This announces to the world that the conclave has selected the new class. The Dean of Admissions emerges from the Alumni Hall. He tells the public gathered in the Quad the names of the freshmen. On the first day of fall term, the newly elected class selects a representative who then emerges and gives the first student pronouncement of the year: Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati.</p>