Each Admission Office has different policies in place regarding their application review. The most common are:

Reader Review

This review process is employed by most private colleges and universities and uses a system where each application is read by at least two admission counselors. In some instances (usually difficult cases), your application may be reviewed a third time, this time by a committee of admission counselors who look at the application collectively and then make a majority final decision. Faculty members may also participate in the process of reader review if the department they represent is pre-professional or specialized (business, engineering, nursing, music, drama, etc.).

Committee Review

In this review process, every application received is reviewed by committee. Usually, an admissions counselor (committee member) is assigned a number of applications to present. It is the responsibility of that individual to prepare background information on each applicant and then present those files to the committee for discussion and a vote. Every applicant is voted on!

Counselor Review

This is a process in which the counselor responsible for a particular school of the university (school of science, business, etc.) or a geographical territory (New England) makes the final decision. In most cases, the counselor who makes the decisions is also the one who identified and recruited the student, lending a more personal tone to the process.

Computer Generated Review

Many large state universities which process 20,000 plus applications a year have developed this method. There are computer-generated guidelines to admit their applicants. If the applicants meet the required grade point average and standardized test scores (SAT I, SAT II, ACT), they are then immediately notified of the decision.