<p>Approximately how many admissions officers are at each college and how exactly do they grade applications? Do they do it online or do they print out your application online and look at it from there? How many normally decide? One officer or two? Would it be wise to become friends with admissions officers?</p>
<p>I don't know how you would go about becoming friends. Admissions committees come in all different sizes, but 3-5 is very common. However, some schools--like northwestern--have no committee, your application just goes through multiple reads, with the final reader making the ultimate decisions. Usually they print out the apps and read hard copies.</p>