<p>That's my question for the ivies.</p>
<p>According to the insider books, they are reading essays about now and assigning them a score on some scale such as 1-5 or 1-9. They will keep reading essays for many weeks. There would be two readers for each application, and if they disagree by more than one point, a third reader goes over it. They would be identifying the auto-denies and the auto-accepts during this process, but everyone else just gets an essay grade and a few notes written on their app. Then after many weeks of essay reading, they start having committee meetings to make decisions.</p>