<p>Does anyone know when they start reviewing applications? Do they wait until they receive everyone's, or have they already started looking at the complete applications?</p>
<p>If they haven't received all my materials yet, does that put me at a disadvantage? </p>
<p>Btw, does anyone else have missing information??</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I read that at the University of Pennsylvania they are initially divided up by region and given to a regional admission officer and read by that person and possibly one other, and then those who are not qualified are weeded out, and all others go before an admission committee in which each regional admission officer discusses the applicants from their region and all the other regional admission officers vote on whether to accept, defer, ect. I read that the admission committee usually meets and makes decisions over several days close to when the admission decisions are given out. I dont know if this is the situation at Columbia, but University of Pennsylvania admissions wrote about the process in an article a few years ago, and I am guessing that most ivy league and other top schools do something similar</p>