<p>Does anyone know how the admission process really goes down? As in how the admission officers decide who gets accepted/rejected. I've heard horror stories like how one person had trouble with their husband and subsequently rejected every application she got that day. (Referring to another thread...)</p>
<p>Can anyone give insight on the process?</p>
<p>LOL: your "horror story" would be a horror story in any context wouldn't it? The air-traffic controller, the triage nurse in the ER, the chef at the posh restaurant.</p>
<p>If you really feel that the admissions offices are so inculcated with people with such low professional standards, then you're in for a long road. Don't believe everything you read</p>
<p>The admissions professionals I've met are extremely dedicated and professional.</p>
<p>Well that's why there is the double reader policy, and also...does it really matter? The chances of it happening in the first place is so low, and the chances of it happening to all your reaches/matches?</p>
<p>the point wasn't to ask about that specific situation, but about the admission process in general.</p>
<p>i believe a long time ago UC Berkeley released a video of the actual admission process in 1990(s). Not sure how relevant that would be though...</p>
<p>Yeah, I watched that. There was a post about it on CC a couple weeks ago. Personally, I thought they were just BS'ing it in from of the camera.</p>
<p>As for general admission process, read a book by a former adcom!</p>
<p>^Like the Gatekeeper(s).</p>
<p>Here's what UMich does. It includes the sheets that adcoms use to evaluate students. </p>
<p>University</a> of Michigan - Office of Undergraduate Admissions</p>
<p>As others before have stated, UC Berkeley did release a video of the admission process, but not by itself I don't believe. I found a video instead through PBS's Frontline. The program did a piece on SAT scores as well as what the UC would do in response to Prop 209, which bans use of race, sex, or ethnicity from California public school admissions. Here's the link. </p>
<p>frontline:</a> secrets of the sat: inside an admissions screening session</p>
<p>MIT has a description of their process [url=<a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/index.shtml%5Dhere%5B/url">http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/index.shtml]here[/url</a>].</p>