Whats the process for evaluating applications?
A committee of at least eight faculty members meet and go over all the files initially, each file being read by at least two members. A long list is developed by each pair of readers at this stage. All faculty in the department are invited to review these files, and the committee members do a second round of reading all of these files. Short lists are developed from this by each member. A last meeting is held and the list of students to be made offers is finalized.