Do Colleges Review Applications Before the Deadline?

BKSquared
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:14:19 +0000

There are 26 Yale Admissions Officers. Applicants are only “guaranteed” 1 reading. A structural legacy advantage is legacy applicants are guaranteed a second reader. My point in post #2 is if your stats are marginal (let’s say at ± the 25 percentile) and you were hoping someone would notice your unique EC or masterful essay, you might better pique an AO’s curiosity if your app was read before the deluge. AO’s are humans and attacking a stack of 100 applications is different than 1200. Now a person at the 25th percentile without a strong hook has a tiny chance of admissions, but if he/she makes it past the first cut, he/she still has an infinitely greater chance than someone who was cut.