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Veritas Tutors Blog: Where the Admissions Magic Happens: Subcommittee vs. Committee. http://bit.ly/bdNyXn
If you have applied to college this admissions season, you must be curious about the path of your application. In this post, we investigate this admission committee process at Harvard and other top colleges.
Subcommittee: A qualifying process
Subcommittee is a gathering of all the Admission Officers for a particular region. During this process, the decision-making process truly begins. Before setting foot in subcommittee, however, your Admission Officer must first review every single application she has read to ensure she has not missed any details and that no new information has arrived since the first read. Finally, subcommittees coalesce into small groups of two to eight people with intimate regional knowledge and experience.
Full Committee: A disqualifying process
Generally beginning in early March, full committee is the time for all Admission Officers to assemble (between 9 and 40 depending on the school) and present the merits of their remaining applicants. In truth, schools like Harvard cannot really make mistakes at this point. Most any applicant who reaches committee has the discipline and aptitude for success great or small at college and in life. That does not mean, however, the committee process is taken lightly.
Rather, scrutiny is at its height with every detail of your academics, extracurriculars, and overall accomplishments literally projected larger-than-life onto a nearby screen for all to critique while your Admission Officer presents your case. In order to gain admission at this point, all or nearly-all of this full committee approve your case. As opposed to the qualifying process of subcommittee, full committee tends to be a disqualifying process with scrutiny focused on the explicit and implicit details of your application.
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