"One and done: Many applications to selective colleges get just a single read" - The Washington Post

"Students aiming for selective colleges will agonize for days or weeks over every little detail of their applications. But often that file will get just one read, perhaps 5 to 15 minutes, before a gatekeeper decides yes or no.  That is apparent not only from The Washington Post’s observation of George Washington University’s admissions shop, detailed in a story Sunday, but also from interviews with veterans of admissions elsewhere."
  
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