Wow, time flies when you're reading applications! Here we are on the 21st of February already, with our Regular Decision Committee on Admission meetings set to begin during the first week of March. If you haven't been keeping up, Committee on Admission (COA or just "committee" for short) is where the entire counseling staff gathers to make the final decisions on our Regular Decision applicants. Here's what will be happening leading up to COA...

This week, we are finishing up our initial review ("first reads," as we call them) of every Regular Decision application. After the first reads have been completed, and each student's information and status has been updated in our computer system (which takes some time with over 5,600 Regular Decision applications!), we will move onto the next stage of the review process. "Second reads" are up next - every student's application file will be reviewed by a second counselor who will add their own input and either agree or disagree with the first reader's recommended decision. And after "second reads," there are still some other places applications could go. Some applications will go on to a third reader, who will be one of the senior staff members in the Office of Admission. And many others will make their way into COA and will be heard by the entire counseling staff during the first two weeks of March.

As you can see, it's certainly a multi-step review process - it takes some time (this is why decision letters won't go out until late March!) but is also the most thorough and, we believe, the fairest way to go through the process. More updates are on the way!