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Karina 07 · 09-03-2007, 04:14 AM

The other day I was surprised by a comment about how top schools slash the 800 or so applications they get down to a reasonable number to read more in depth.

And now I'm wondering: so how do you reckon they do this? Has anyone ever heard anything concrete about this?

(I'm just now wondering if some of my applications basically never saw the light of day, considering how little/crappy math I had.)

750+ GRE, or some such, undoubtedly. And then... the presence/absence of the "bare minimum" math (since occasionally someone without linear algebra or without real analysis slips in, I'm not sure how they'd count this).... Maybe school name, honestly. I don't know, what are your thoughts?

Presumably, my guess above would still leave them with way too many applications to reasonably review, so it's maybe more drastic....

09-03-2007, 04:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
Karina 07 TestMagic Guru-in-Training Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 738	So here's a question: what do you reckon are the typical cut-offs used? The other day I was surprised by a comment about how top schools slash the 800 or so applications they get down to a reasonable number to read more in depth. And now I'm wondering: so how do you reckon they do this? Has anyone ever heard anything concrete about this? (I'm just now wondering if some of my applications basically never saw the light of day, considering how little/crappy math I had.) 750+ GRE, or some such, undoubtedly. And then... the presence/absence of the "bare minimum" math (since occasionally someone without linear algebra or without real analysis slips in, I'm not sure how they'd count this).... Maybe school name, honestly. I don't know, what are your thoughts? Presumably, my guess above would still leave them with way too many applications to reasonably review, so it's maybe more drastic....