<p>^ No… actually what the guy says happens is that all admission officers have to go through every application and basically write a few sentences summarizing every candidacy. That takes a lot of time!! And then they have committee meetings for several weeks were they basically spend less than a minute per application. “By the time your application gets to the “full” admissions committee - usually the director, the presenter, and one or two other officers (everyone else is busy reading folders) - the decision is made. Very rarely does the committee overturn the presenter’s recommendations, and such reversals often involve an applicant from one of the Lobby groups. In fact, in the case of an experience admissions officer who has established credibility, the committee is likely to be just a rubber stamp”. That’s what the guy says in his book. The author was an admissions officer at Brown and an assistant director of admissions at Columbia.</p>
<p>That’s enough for me to trust what he says…</p>