<p>I am 100% sure that this is absolutely NOT how applications are read at Ivy League schools. The first read of an application is done by your area admissions officer, and subsequent reads are done by other higher-ups in the admissions office (though only if such reads are warranted; if a rejection is almost surely gonna be the outcome, then only one read of a file occurs).</p>
<p>Some applicants are pretty much auto-admits, i.e., they’re so strong that they don’t even have to be voted on… But most applicants who have a shot of being accepted go to committee.</p>