<p>Do adcoms actually print out your essays, or do they just view them online?</p>
<p>bump…Does anyone have an idea?</p>
<p>They scan them into their computers and read them as so.</p>
<p>Yes, copies are made when a reader takes the essay home.
Typically one reader will take a stack of applications home at night and make comments on them. The application will then be discussed the next day in a group setting. That is the peculiar thing. Usually no more than 3 people actually will read your essay where as a group will receive a summary on it.</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions: The Selection Process: Application Reading, Committee, And Decisions](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/index.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/index.shtml)
This is generally true for most elite colleges
Sure there are variations, but the heart of the matter is there.</p>
<p>oh thanks!! I acutally really wanted to know HOW they acutally evaluated our applicatons :)</p>
<p>so I am assuming that any supplements and recommendations will also be scaned to be included as a whole file?</p>