<p>do the uc schools still implement this? if so, when do they usually start notifying applicants?</p>
<p>oh, also, is this offered to OOS students?</p>
<p>From what I can gather, yes, OOS students can be asked for more info (augmented review). UC still does this.</p>
<p>You should probably hear anytime now because I heard from them today.</p>
<p>They send out the augmented reviews as they review apps, I think, so it's possible you could get it even in February and such (I know others who did last year).</p>
<p>What is augmented review? :D</p>
<p>For example, once Berkeley scores the applications, the take the ones that are in the cutoff zone, thus could be either an admit or a reject, and ask for additional information to perform an augmented review. This allows them to make the admit or reject decision for the few percent that are in this gray area. </p>
<p>UCB has three kinds of augmented review questionnaires, AFAIK. One is for someone who had disabilities or challenges, with a focus on guessing how the person might thrive or flounder at Cal. Another is for special talent, where the goal is to compose a well rounded class of 2012 by including a mix of interesting people to complement the high academic achievers. The first two would move people up whose academic performance alone didn't make the cut, while the third type seems to be used for those whose stats are high but right at the decision point.</p>
<p>Berkeley does initial scoring on a scale without much granularity -- eligible applicants are assigned 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, or 5. Other campuses such as UCSD use a more fine grained numerical scale and can hit the target number of admissions by selecting a precise value for a cutoff -- moving a number from 7500 to 7501 might be the fine tuning needed to get to the exact target admissions numbers. On the other hand, moving from 2.5 to 3 sweeps in a large number of applicants, so that whatever number UCB sets is going to geenrate either too many or too few for admissions. Augmented review helps sort through the pool to pick just enough to make their target. </p>
<p>UCLA and UCSD are said to also do augmented review, although the reasons and mechanics would vary in their case. For UCSD, since they have a very rigid and documented rubric for scoring, the augmented review might be sent out for students who are just short of the cutoff points but have ambiguous comments in the application that in some cases might qualify for points. By reading the response inthe augmented review, the points are either assigned or not, resulting in an admit or reject decision. UCSD sets its cutoff to buffer for a few such augmented cases and to buffer for a small number of appeals from rejected students who provide more information to prove they warrant points in some category.</p>
<p>Could be the people who have been asked to send in augmented review questionnaires share your stats & intended majors please.</p>
<p>rider730:</p>
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<p>Where did you get that? I had read it was just 1-5 (no decimals), though I suppose it's possible they changed it.</p>
<p>^^^
I think that they average them.</p>
<p>kyledavid80 - I found a report on the web from the UC system that mentioned the introduction of a 2.5 value between the earlier integral values to more finely resolve near the cutoff between admit and reject. Do a google to locate the PDF file -- it goes into some detail on every campus.</p>