<p>Do UC Berk and UCLA use a point system in admissions (whether it is released to the public or not...) or is the admissions review process completely subjective?</p>
<p>There is no point system, but the holistic review process is relatively tightly defined to reduce inconsistencies. See the Hout report.</p>
<p><a href=“http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/committees/aepe/hout_report_0.pdf[/url]”>http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/committees/aepe/hout_report_0.pdf</a></p>
<p>^Doesn’t that document basically say they do use a point system (based on a ‘holistic’ read of each application in its entirety)? They give each application a score, and determine at which number they start making “cutoffs.”</p>
<p>Or perhaps there is a difference between a point system and a score system I’m not understanding?</p>
<p>Guess that depends on what you mean a “point system”.</p>
<p>Previous Berkeley admissions processes calculated a point total assigning some points to GPA, some to test scores, some to other factors, etc., rather than doing a holistic review of the application to get the scores used for ranking the applicants with respect to a cutoff score based on capacity and estimated yield.</p>