<p>Just curious, and also, do you know how much time they spend reading the essays? I hope it’s not like SATs where the readers spend like 50-60s on an essay.</p>
<p>I don't know for certain, but it depends. If a senior admissions officer reads your application and doesn't like it, then that may be the end. And about the time reading the essays, it's certainly not 50-60s, but don't believe it's too much either. They can review a whole application pretty quickly.</p>
<p>I think I read somewhere that before it reaches the actual room with adcoms, it is reviewed by a regional-type, admissions personel, where he or she views it for approximately 20 minutes. I read an article (that was actually written a few years back) about Penn's admissions and it seemed as though they went through them pretty quickly (around 1 or 2 minutes) the first time around. I'm sure they go through most of them more than once though. Someone correct me if I'm wrong about any of this, and don't take this too seriously, since it's really all just educated speculation and not actually fact</p>
<p>It varies.......just like anything else during evaluation. If there is a close decision or for some reason you get put into a specific category......say you play oboe and they need one, you may get read by several adcoms and more of a lengthy look. It is like picking from a menu, some descriptions you may read closely and more than once other dishes you have little or no interest in.</p>
<p>1-2 mins seems reasonble, I think. I've also read a case in which a vote among adcoms was done for a "borderline" application. Of course, don't take my word for any of this.</p>
<p>i think generally two people read your app, one of which is ur regional admissions officer, unless of course ur borderline.</p>