<p>how much time do you think is spent on an application?</p>
<p>hehe it's weird to think that the applicants pour days, hours, and even months into an app, and then it is just looked at in 5 minutes.</p>
<p>I think they spend at least half an hour, unless your stats are horrible... then it goes straight into the trash.</p>
<p>wow 30 minutes, that's really good!</p>
<p>you're kidding...they spend less than 30 minutes...they have SO many apps!</p>
<p>They gotta read those recs, look at your stuff, and read your essay, don't they?</p>
<p>Let's say they read the apps in 10 days, work 8 hrs a day, that'll be 10*8 = 80 hrs per admissions officer, 160 applications per officer. (assuming that they read them in half an hour)</p>
<p>So assuming 2000 ED applications, there'd have to be 2000/160 = 12.5 admissions officers, which I think is a reasonable number to have on their staff.</p>
<p>I would ay ur region director look at ur app for about 25 min then the next person about 10min and IF IF it makes it to the committee 2 minutes</p>
<p>i hope i make it to committee!!</p>
<p>what bballplaya753 said is actually very true, I know a local college of mine which does exactly that.</p>
<p>"I think they spend at least half an hour, unless your stats are horrible... then it goes straight into the trash." - o god.. how mean....</p>
<p>anyway.. so u guys think that not EVERYONE gets taken to the committe?</p>
<p>damnit.. i wanna noe EXACTLY how the admissions procedure works..</p>
<p>soul or any other columbians .. can you PLEASE find out for us?</p>
<p>goddddd i just wanna noe what the hell is going on .. what are they doing?</p>
<p>i hope they spend at least 30 mins with my app</p>
<p>I don't know where you guys get your information...everyone makes it to the committee. I'm certain of it. Unless the guy who gave my interview was lying, which is doubtful. He said that the apps are given to the admissions officer for each area first. They make a decision on whether you should get in or not. They go to the committee, with all the apps they read. If they say one person should be rejected, the committee challenges them asking them to defend why that person should be rejected. If they say another person should be accepted, the same thing happens. They are challenged to defend their decision as to why the person should be accepted. Every single application will make it to the committee.</p>
<p>Ok.. yeh I think that may be right actually..</p>
<p>My interviewer did also mention a bit of the admissions process.
He said that last year when he went to Columbia for some alumni thingy, he was "invited" to go inside the adcom room and get a sense of what really goes on.
They apparantly showed him how they view the apps (all on the computer).. and he said that he could imagine the whole adcom sitting around the desk with their laptops, looking at the apps..
And I think I remember vaguely him describing how the adcom views all apps that the geographical readers "present".
And everything is viewed on the comp...
However, he said anything beyond that is a "black box".</p>
<p>so they scan in the school transcript?</p>
<p>so wut happens to teacher recs and transcripts? theres only one copy of each</p>
<p>At a reception in my area, the regional admissions rep said that they spend an average of 15 minutes on them. </p>
<p>He said they can sometimes be as short as 10 and sometime as long as 40.</p>
<p>wow.. i hope they spend 40 on mine..</p>
<p>ummm as far as i know they scan in everything... that is not already on comp</p>
<p>wait i send portfolio...how does that work? is there art professor in the admission office, too?</p>
<p>lol i dont know. they probably send it to that department and if theyre really impressed they will notify the admissions office</p>
<p>This scares me, i get the impression that if they're spending on this short amount of time then they're not actually reading our essays, just sort of skimming them...what a waste...</p>
<p>no.. of course they READ the essay.. im very sure they do.. and i think they'll read it with care</p>