<p>Blueducky, to the best extent of my knowledge, this is sort of how it works. Each regional admit gets all the apps from that region. They read them, pick ALL the ones they like, and then narrow it down from there. if your app makes it through the first stage, then it goes to committe and everyone discusses it. I don’t think they evaluate them in order, otherwise, everyone who gets admitted would be the people that sent in their apps first (not the case). Also, given that these are reasonably intelligent people, they’re not going to randomly toss the paper pile, stack it up, and only accept the top half of the stack. Basically, I don’t think the order matters. (they’re also going to reject a LOT more than 11 people in a row!). Somewhere, I don’t know if it was on the stanford forum, someone posted a link from a few years back that was “behind the closed doors of admissions for UChicago”. It was really interesting to read. I don’t know if stanford does it the same, but if you can get ahold of it, it was quite informative.</p>