So, I’m spending some time this afternoon going through my second pile of forms. Basically, our central admissions team receive your application and send a copy of the form over to me, usually in a bundle of somewhere between 40 and 60. When they drop into my pigeon hole in the politics building, I pick them up and then look to carve out a few hours to take a preliminary look at them. I aim to sort them into strong accepts, accepts, maybes, special cases and rejections: then I revisit categories 2-5 over time to make a final decision, and choose the best offer to make. I’m a little behind and I have two piles here – these are forms processed over the last couple of weeks. Ah well, back to it…