who is my admissions officer?

WindCloudUltra
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:58:47 +0000

@jkreine: I’ll try to answer your question, and if etondad or anyone else has anything to add or correct, they can go ahead.

Between late Jan and the beginning of March, the different small groups of admissions officers meet to deliberate over applicants. At any one point, there are usually 2 to 3 geographical regions (called dockets) being considered. I’m not sure if they convene separately or as a medium sized group.

By the end, each subcommittee will probably have eliminated a considerable chunk of applications from consideration. Those that survive are brought to full committee, which convenes in about 2 weeks from now. Your regional rep (that is, the adcom or two responsible for giving your app a first pass read) will then ‘go to bat for you’ as they say in front of his/her colleagues. Usually they’ll try to sell you as an applicant, and the other adcoms will concur, or raise questions or concerns and so on. Those who survive will either get an offer or be put on the waitlist, and those who don’t will receive a rejection.