How would this work?

Applying to College
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Ok, so I was thinking about this earlier about how ucla has read through 43,000 applications. I don’t think they could have read through all of them.

Considering that they received and started reviewing our applications on december 1 all the way through march 1. That gives them 90 days, considering holidays and weekends, to accept/reject applications.
Now lets assume that, at worst, they worked 8 hours a day reading these applications. That gives them a total of 720 hours to read 43,000 applications.
This comes to about 60 applications per hour, which means that they have about under a minute to read each and every application. Now considering that they probably took days off, breaks, and such, we can assume that they realistically probably had about 45 seconds or so max per application. We also have to consider that there are 4 people who read these applications, and they all have to have a unanimous decision for it to pass. So that leaves about 12 seconds for each person to read through one application. Is it just me or is does this seem a little odd to any of you?

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<p>Your post seems odd because you make it seem as if they only have 4 people working with the second always waiting for the first and the third waiting for the second etc...<br>
They absolutely have more than 20 people reading applications all at the same time. I mean that seems pretty obvious doesn't it?</p>

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<p>Oh yeah I forgot about that. They probably have numerous people working there. But still thats very subjective.</p>

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<p>they also eliminate applicants who are ineligible (maybe they don't meet the requirements or they haven't taken all of the required classes) and people with very low gpa's and sat scores before reading through the applications</p>

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<p>Yeah sorry man but you way overanalyzed this.</p>