<p>Hello all -</p>
<p>I recently applied to UC Berkeley and UCLA in the college of environmental design (major: architecture). It is my understanding that this specific college (env. design) for each campus will hold the people reviewing my application. However, I do not understand how they do this; I picture a room full of individuals each reading applications from top to bottom. Does anybody know what their real process is? i.e. Are there more than one set of eyes that will review my application? I am scared that one person may not enjoy my personal statement while another person will. Thanks in advance.</p>
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<p>Pay particular attention to the Hout report linked from the above page.</p>
<p>Basically, two different admissions readers will read your application and score it on a 1 (best) to 5 (worst) scale using specified criteria. The average of the two is your “read score”. For each division at the university (e.g. at Berkeley, College of Environmental Design or College of Letters and Science; College of Engineering applicants are separated by major), the applicants are rank ordered by read score and the top scoring applicants are admitted to fill the number of admits for the division. If there is a read score crossing the admit/deny threshold, tie breaking procedures are used for applicants at that read score to determine which applicants at that read score are admitted.</p>
<p>It varies by school. At Berkeley, most of the readers are high school teachers and they follow the procedures outlined above.</p>