<p>Admissions aren't made by an app-by-app basis. They are rated by readers on an app-by-app basis, that/s true. Each application is awarded one of 5 values (with additional plus or minus modifiers bringing the actual number of total values to 15), the highest being "High Admit Plus." This is described here:</p>
<p>They don't use a formula to rate you, however. That's changed. Readers use their own judgment, also which is talked about on that website.</p>
<p>That's your rating. When it comes to admitting, that's generally done in groups. So one week, they may decide to admit every pending applicant who was rated in the three high-admit categories (High Admit Plus, High Admit, High Admit Minus), but to defer everyone who fell into the next three groups down (the three "admit" categories) and to deny everyone below that. Just a hypothetical example.</p>