I was thinking bulge bracket banks such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan cant go through every application they receive can they?
They say/give the impression that they do but surely they cant?
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If by "go through" you mean "1 second glance at school & GPA", yes.
That and other heuristics are used to whittle the list down to a manageable stack.
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