<p>token, please think this through on the numbers.
Applications come through and at least two, hopefully three, people read each application word for word. Now a large committee meets and has their reports. Let’s call this 9 to 5, Monday through Friday, starting the beginning of March, for four weeks. Do you think this committee will get its head around 1000 applicants a day?
I have complete respect (I hope not misplaced) that the Ivy schools give each application focussed attention. It is not a criticism, IMO, that twenty or thirty people do not bandy about the pluses and minuses of any particular candidate around a table.</p>