How much time do admissions officers spend on each application?

RiceEater108
Wed, 03 Jun 2015 04:56:04 +0000

I heard that Stanford admissions officers spend only 5 minutes on each application. They spend 4.5 minutes out of these 5 minutes reading the essays. They only spend 30 seconds to see if the scores/GPA/activities are “in-line” for admission into Stanford.

This is worrying because I spent a lot of time on my extracurriculars and have a successful business that gets thousands of dollars. If the officers don’t really put much time into seeing it…

I’m a sophomore so forgive me for my ignorance.

Thanks