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Agreed about acceptance review. Respectfully disagree about anything being missed. This is high stakes poker, Schools only have so many II slots. The people doing the reviews know what they are doing.I think its certainly possible (but unlikely) that @voxveritatisetlucis might have gotten an II because an adcom accidentally missed his disclosure. While its very unlikely, applying to so many schools across two cycles makes it a little more likely that the unlikely will happen at least once, at one school. I find it near impossible, however, that such a fact would be skipped before acceptance review.
There's no real point in speculating though. If it comes up in his interview, then he knows they saw it. If it doesn't, then he knows they probably did not (as something that major that deeply affected his life is extremely unlikely to be considered unimportant).
When is your interview?
150+ schools review as many as 10,000+ applications each. This still does not make it likely that the unlikely ever happens with respect to criminal disclosures. Keep in mind, this is not a ton of paper sitting on someone's desk. The apps are all online. Screening for IAs, including criminal disclosures, is one of the simplest, most basic, and most important screens they do. They just don't forget to do them, for everyone, in a nanosecond when an application arrives.
Some schools won't send a secondary without reviewing them. It's inconceivable that anyone would send an II without a thorough review. And it would be impossible to believe negligence to imagine an A being issued without considering it.
Things like criminal disclosures don't get "missed." Whether or not it comes up in an interview, I promise you it was seen. It is entirely possible that it might not be available to whoever is doing the interview, so it very well might not come up, as big a deal as it is.
What happened is that whoever did the II review at this one school decided the applicant was worth one of those limited slots. This means the disclosure is not an auto-R at that school, but does not mean the candidate will ultimately pass muster with the entire committee.
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