<p>Uh I don’t know the exact numbers but I imagine 4-6.</p>
<p>Somehow, I doubt that they allow students to be a part of the admissions decision process.</p>
<p>I heard from an admissions officer that seniors are in fact allowed to be part of the Admissions Committee. Whether they are allowed to vote or not is another matter.</p>
<p>If they can’t vote, what’s the point of having them sit in on the committee?</p>
<p>Well, to guide the conversation and offer insights as a student at Yale. There are plenty of committees that have non-voting members to provide unique perspectives for the voting body.</p>
<p>MIT is very open about their admissions process. They have blogs on their side detailing how they choose students. Perhaps Yale’s is similar to MIT’s?</p>
<p>Can you link me to the MIT admissions process blog?</p>
<p>[Reading</a> Folders](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/reading_folders.shtml]Reading”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/reading_folders.shtml)
[More</a> about reading](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/more_about_reading.shtml]More”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/more_about_reading.shtml)
[Selection</a> process](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/]Selection”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/)</p>
<p>This is always a nice theory for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/614939-how-does-yale-select-who-accept-answered.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/614939-how-does-yale-select-who-accept-answered.html</a></p>
<p>Honestly, the committee does not spend more than 30sec - literally - per application. The really bad ones do not even reach this point. I read this in the book “On writing the College Application essay” by Harry Bauld. The sources are from Brown and Columbia admission officers…</p>
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<p>If that were true, they could have results ready by Nov 2.</p>
<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>
<p>From one of the lobby groups? What do you mean by that? As in looking at hooks and stuff like that?</p>
<p>So what do you imagine they’re doing right now? Finishing up committee decisions? And when do these finish by–the first week of December? I imagine there needs to be time to prepare all the packages they are going to send to accepted students. </p>
<p>Do they go through these by schools, alphabetically by last name or randomly?</p>
<p>Financial aid packages probably takes a while, too.
Probably alphabetically, but maybe by each individual regional representative with their respective regions? Ahhhh</p>
<p>My surname is in the top bit of the alphabet. This means that they will probably finalize my decision in the next week (if I was lucky enough to even reach committee) which is an infinitely scary thought. </p>
<p>Like I said, there’s nothing we can do now as much as I wish there were. :-/</p>
<p>At one of the Yale info sessions I went to, the admissions officer said that there are some cases in which the committee just discusses an applicant for 2 hours O_____o. I’m sure that’s the exception, not the rule, but just giving food for thought.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what time decisions will be announced?</p>
<p>December 15th at 5PM EST, most likely.</p>
<p>Harvard had an interesting article about the admissions process recently (with pictures!): [Admissions</a> process | Harvard Gazette](<a href=“http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/02/admissions-process/]Admissions”>Admissions process – Harvard Gazette)</p>
<p>I’m guessing it’s at least somewhat similar at Yale.</p>