@gibby @GregB77777 Amherst most definitely reads all applications to some degree. I would go as far as to say that they read the whole thing for some applications, but I am sure they look at every application! Especially since diversity is a big deal to them. They have quite a spread of regional readers, so I’d assume each reads about a few hundreds. When I was there they had a sense of closeness to the application readings, in that they didn’t seem removed from the process. As with the Stanford link I posted above notes that Stanford has 52 readers or something like that, it seems that schools adding on more readers to deal with the influx of apps.
Hey, if you’re charging someone up to 90 dollars an app and you’re only paying the CA like five dollars an app, I hope they’d be able to afford readers!