<p>You guys are looking at it the wrong way. They pare down 30K applicants to about twice as many as they need, probably 3000. Then they do things like google someone or look for their facebook page.</p>
<p>There is no way they would bother the “second level” of scrutiny if they weren’t strongly considering making an offer to someone.</p>
<p>So - think about it. You meet all the academic and EC criteria. You hit your essay out of the park. Your ECs are great. They will check on your ECs online, if any are big. They will google you for anything out of sorts (arrests? posts using your real name?). And check facebook.</p>
<p>Have a very very common name, and it will be difficult to pin anything down on you ;)</p>