<p>Like others have stated, schools with under 10% admit rate suffer from the problem of abundance. </p>
<p>While practicing the Dark Art of holistic evaluations, one can’t dismiss the bias that a “36” or “2390” can impart. </p>
<p>I recall speaking with one admissions officer (it wa a private conversation). </p>
<p>He was advocating that files that were being read in commitee (i.e. past the first stage but needing consensus before moving fwd) be assigned “high” “high middle” and “middle” to the test score totals. He had noticed that people subtly favoring the “2400” over the “2360” even though everyone agreed that the difference was non-existent. By blocking out the actual numbers, he hoped to dispel a pattern of inherent bias. </p>
<p>It was noticeable enough to him that he wanted to introduce a new process. Dunno if it was ever implemented however…</p>