<p>Well, I just went to the old forums to do a little perusing and this is what I found:</p>
<p>"All right, here's how it goes for EA decisions and all others. Someone on the committee is the first person to look at your file. Now hopefully that one person likes you enough to make notes/recs about you in your folder. Then it's passed around certain other members of the committiee who perhaps have judged apps from your region in the past. </p>
<p>If that first person assigned to your folder doesn't like you, someone else will eventually as it's being passed around and will make favourable notes on your behalf. If not, you're out. </p>
<p>For the ones that make it past all this (and it's an extremely thorough scan of all the material they have on you) they await your alumni interview depositions, if any, and the one person who by now is your advocate on your folder decides at that time whether he/she really wants to recommend you to the committee or not. And then the whole committee sits down and as a group votes on you, with your advocate pleading for you to the other members, some of whom may like you, some who don't, and some who haven't ever seen your file. </p>
<p>That's how it works. All the best. </p>
<p>Take it from an insider."</p>
<p>Take it as you will I guess. It sounds like any other admissions decision to me.</p>