<p>The video is really interesting. It mentions some facts that I think I hadn't ever heard of before. They also say that they finished making decisions on the 19th. Inside</a> the Harvard Admissions Process | Flyby | The Harvard Crimson</p>
<p>I had my second interview just a few days before the 19th…it’s weird knowing that I was still in contention up until that point…it’s just odd.</p>
<p>So, lets assume it takes - on average - 10 minutes per applicant. Say that they work a standard 8 hour day. That is 48 students per day.</p>
<p>By my math they can only go through about 900 apps in the full committee in 18 days. I would guess that well over 3000 get to the final committee?</p>
<p>Where am I wrong?</p>
<p>^ They don’t spend 10 minutes on each applicant in the committee. The readers spend 20ish minutes each beforehand, but I think the committee only spends something like 2-5 minutes listening to the readers before deciding…</p>
<p>EDIT: I’m referring to the main committee above. The sub-committees probably spend more time on each applicant.</p>
<p>Even though you always hear about the admissions process being competitive, I didn’t know that it was THIS competitive. </p>
<p>Oh well, good luck to everyone that applied. I can say that we TRULY tried our best.</p>
<p>Yeah just saw the thing on Amherst admissions. When they said that they spent up to an hour on some that threw me a bit.</p>
<p>“Say that they work a standard 8 hour day.”</p>
<p>They work much, much longer days than that in full committee. It’s a marathon. They pretty much move into the office for the last month or so.</p>
<p>So basically everything I said was wrong. . .</p>
<p>Oh well</p>
<p>It sounds even more impossible (if that is even feasible) to get in after watching that.</p>