[from Inside Higher Ed] The University of Pennsylvania started using a new approach to the first review of applications in 2013. It's called the "committee-based" system and it is designed to make it possible to review in a new way the massive numbers of applications that competitive colleges receive. The new system replaces the first solo review with a joint review by two admissions officers. Even having two admissions officers involved instead of one, the new system saves considerable time, in that it takes less than half of the time of a one-person review, and Penn officials believe it is assuring equally reliable decisions. In the last two years, Bucknell, Case Western Reserve and Emory Universities and Swarthmore College have all gone to committee-based admissions, and all report that they are pleased with the system.
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