We thank Nils Fonstad and the Sloan Admissions staff (at the MIT Sloan School of Management) for providing data on the Sloan Admissions process. We would also like to thank Tom Malone, John Quimby, George Wyner, Abraham Bernstein, and other researchers at the MIT Center for Coordination Science for discussions about the genre taxonomy. We acknowledge the research support of Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. and the Center for Coordination Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.