I know that colleges typically divide by geographical regions with regional admissions officers. Within one geographical pile, are the applications kept separate based on their type (common app, coalition, questbridge,) or separated by other methods such as putting applicants from the same high school together? I’m wondering as I’m sure that the order in which applications are read would make some sort of difference, whether psychological or logistical. Thanks!
Generally, same HS/town would be read together. Applications are not divided into common vs coalition.
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Application reading would generally be batched by application deadline (QB, EA/ED, ED-2, RD) in order to have decisions by the promised decision deadline.
For colleges using rolling admission, applications may be read as they come in. Decisions may come soon for clear admits and clear rejects, but some that are seen as close to the possible borderline may be deferred for later decision after the actual borderline becomes clear.
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For colleges that are on both Common and Coalition platforms, they may download completed applications from each platform at different times and different intervals. Since there’re likely more applications on Common than on Coalition, I’d imagine some colleges would download applications from the Common App platform more frequently. How each college chooses to read them in the same round (EA/ED, RD, etc.) will likely be college-dependent.
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