<p>I always wonder how HYPS do their admissions decisions.
Probably they have some sort of a machine where they enter values for a potential candidate. If he/she exceeds the required number or something, then he/she gets in. </p>
<p>*** Just a guess. Don't jest me. ***</p>
<p>Just the opposite, the top schools in the country have no formula for admission. That is what makes the process so much of a mystery.</p>
<p>YAH^ && to top it all of you never know what kind of characteristics they look for each year</p>
<p>One can try && come of as quirky just to be admitted to uChicago but even thats not a guarantee</p>
<p>haha, possible. Or colleges might not be telling us the entire story..</p>
<p>I know Michigan is planning on using a "potential calculator" soon.</p>
<p>academic index calculator <a href="http://hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/resources/calculator.html%5B/url%5D">http://hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/resources/calculator.html</a></p>
<p>They plaster all the applications on the wall and shoot off as many paintballs as they have open slots. Get hit you're in. They figure everyone who applied is qualified anyway, so this method is as good as any.</p>
<p>Sometimes they use darts, but paintballs are more fun.</p>
<p>no, they gather all the 20k applications and throw them. The 2000 applications that go the furthest are the ones that get accepted.</p>
<p>I suppose that means you should include as little as possible for a light application and hope for a gust of wind?</p>
<p>what I've heard, and this is completely anecdotal, is that for schools like Harvard they have like 10-12 adcoms come together and review each app together. Upon reviewing an app, if 2 or more adcoms have any reason why this person shouldn't be admitted, then it's thrown out. If not, it moves on to the next round.</p>
<p>haha no idea if this is true, but if it is, that's really scary/intense</p>
<p>They actually put cover pages on your electronic applications and use that to play go fish.</p>
<p>"You got any Valedictorian/Perfect ACT/Tutored deaf children for a year?"
"Nope, go fish."
"Poor kid..."</p>
<p>LOL, on a more serious note, here's how MIT does it.</p>
<p>On the other hand, places like the service academies have a formula for accepting applicants.</p>
<p>Check out this link for Air Force:</p>
<p>all the ivies use the academic index (link posted above) and also use an extracurricular index.</p>
<p>I think the elite colleges gather in secret counsel and under the cover of darkness, break into your room and put a hat on you. It's no ordinary hat. This hat carefully ponders which school you belong in and when it has made it's decision, it yells out the name of the school and the admission counsel writes it down.</p>
<p>Wait, that's been done hasn't it?</p>
<p>gyfind00r!!11</p>
<p>MIT doesn't do it too well. I mean, the application is summarized by an adcom? Probably implies that you should organize it as neatly as possible</p>
<p>I remember I read that MIT first uses a "academic qualifying index" where they plug your gpa, courseload level, sat, act, sat iis, etc into a formula and spit out a number for you: if its above a certain amount, then they begin selecting based on your personal qualities</p>
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<p>Of course, a certain charm is performed immediately upon the subject so no recollection of this selection process remains. It is one of the closest guarded secrets in HYPMSC selections.</p>