If 85-90% of the students applying to these schools are admissible (according to the admission deans), then how do these admission officers make their decisions?
I would offer my iceberg analogy.
This is something I drew up on a napkin while listening to Bill Fitzsimmons talk about admissions at Harvard at the Harvard Institute.
90% of the reasons why or why not are underneath the surface.
Where we will never know why.
Which often then translates to students beating themselves up over the 10% above the surface that had NOTHING to do with the decision made.
