Confessions of a College Admissions Reader

Applying to College
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<p>I initially read this article thinking that it was satire/fiction. Unfortunately for all of the great hard-working students out there, it is not. Though there are many issues raised in this piece, the main one is how ultimately subjective, random, and (at times) unprofessional the decision making process is. Glad to cross Berkley off my son's list of engineering schools. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/education/edlife/lifting-the-veil-on-the-holistic-process-at-the-university-of-california-berkeley.html?ref=education&_r=0%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/education/edlife/lifting-the-veil-on-the-holistic-process-at-the-university-of-california-berkeley.html?ref=education&_r=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>You might want to look at the multi page thread on this article in the Parents Forum.</p>

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<p>If you cross UCB off because one green reader (not even associated with Berkeley other than this, nor even having ever been a reader before) didn’t get it, you have lost. Go read the very long thread about this article.</p>