How do they choose?

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>I've been searching around the interwebs for an answer, but I can't find it. Exactly how does a campus, such as Berkeley, choose who to admit? I don't mean the weight of GPA, ECs, personal statement, but the actual selection itself? Is it one reader, who then passes it on to some kind of committee? Is it a single person (of many) who gets a stack of applications for a particular department/ college, and they alone make the decisions? Do they take psychedelics, chant, and throw darts at a wall of apps? Or is it some kind of secretive process, and nobody really knows?</p>

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<p>Depends, for UCLA it’s a hollistic review by 2 people and their decision is then averaged out.</p>

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<p>So, you mean each looks over your application and forwards it to the other, or the pair do each one together, simultaneously?</p>

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<p>They do it seperate and then average the scores.</p>

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<p>I’ve always wondered this too! But wow, two people reading thousands of apps by themselves? In like less than 4months? I hope they don’t **** up on mine -_-</p>

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<p>This is for Freshman applicants, but I can’t see it being much different for transfer applicants.

It then lists a number of criteria. You can find them at the link below.
[Freshman</a> Selection - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_fr/FrSel.htm]Freshman”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_fr/FrSel.htm)</p>

<p>EDIT: Berkley uses the same process. They also state the same method word for word.
<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp?id=56&navid=N[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp?id=56&navid=N&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>you da you da best^</p>

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<p>^^ I used a video about Berkeley admissions while I was writing my app. They showed clips of a large group of readers going over applications together so I always assumed that’s how it works. [YouTube</a> - UC Berkeley Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“UC Berkeley Undergraduate Admissions - YouTube”>UC Berkeley Undergraduate Admissions - YouTube) You can see this particularly at 1:40-2:10. Now I’m wondering how it really works.</p>

<p>ETA: I can at least confirm with my experience that UCLA has two independent readers. A UCLA admissions officer, after giving a talk about the frosh admissions process, said the transfer process is basically the same.</p>

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<p>Good info guy guys, thanks, and merry Christmas!</p>