<p>Do all admissions officiers go over an application together and make decisions together? Or is it an individual kind of thing, where an offiicer will look at a profile and be like "no," and then its done deal for applicant. </p>
<p>Or, does the admission person say "no," and then discuss it will other admission people, or just pass it on for deliberation?</p>
<p>read last year's entries in the archive (I think it's in January of 2006?) of AdmissionsDaniel's blog at <a href="http://hopkins.typepad.com/%5B/url%5D">http://hopkins.typepad.com/</a>
It has a pretty detailed description of how admission committee reviews the applications, including the personal profile of each member in adcom.</p>
<p>Every college uses a different system - I remember from when I was applying to schools that some had individual admissions officers read apps, others use committees, some use faculty and even students.</p>
<p>See [url=<a href="http://hopkins.typepad.com/hopkins_insider/2006/01/three_months_of.html%5DAdmissionsDaniel's">http://hopkins.typepad.com/hopkins_insider/2006/01/three_months_of.html]AdmissionsDaniel's</a> blog entry<a href="what%20godipial%20was%20referring%20to">/url</a> for more on how he reads applications</p>
<p>yea in AdmissionDaniel's blog archives there is also a section (in January 2006 I believe) where each admissions counselor writes about his or her own preferences, so you can find your regional representative and read a little about him or her.</p>
<p>plenty of these questions have been answered already.. just search for them</p>