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Colleges Go Online to Calm the Admissions Jitters

Daniel Creasy and the other Johns Hopkins University admissions office staff have to read 200 files a week to get through the 14,840 applications piled on chairs and crates in the hallways. That’s 65 percent more applicants than they had just five years ago — so many, Creasy joked, that he has to get his dog to help read them.