<p>Is it a group of people and the collaboratively choose or is it a group of people and they individually choose or is it one person that chooses them all? :D</p>
<p>bump would like to know, too</p>
<p>I remember hearing a few people read each application.</p>
<p>I demand empirical evidence!</p>
<p>haha unfortunately no empirical evidence here, but I heard the same thing. I want to say 3 people read each spending an average of 8-10 minutes each, needing a 2 person majority to reach a decision.</p>
<p>1 person reads it...and it takes around 20 min per app </p>
<p>(trust me, my source would know lol)</p>
<p>MY source knows better:</p>
<p>the computer scans for all applicants with 4.0. accepts all</p>
<p>`` scans for 3.7~3.9, rand() to select 80% of applicants
`` scans for 3.5~3.69, rand() to select 60% of applicants
`` scans for 3.2~3.49, rand() to select 30%
`` scans for 3.0~3.19, rand() 50% to read essays and look at ECs</p>
<p>0, they throw it all up in the air and whichever ones land face up are in</p>
<p>they turn the paper upside down and look at it through a light
if they see jesus then ur in!</p>
<p>and there is this rumor that if u have a first or last name similar to the team of people reviewing it... your automatically in.</p>
<p>Actually, you are all wrong. What they do is, first, they gather all of the applications and split them in half. The first stack is labeled "heads;" the second "tails." The adcoms Rochambeau (rock, paper, scissors) to see who will flip the baby (yeah, college admissions are weird like that... but they dont explain the tail part). After the losing stack is eaten by the person who came in last in the Rochambeau tournament, the real analyzing begins.</p>
<p>With half of the apps being digested, the adcoms now only worry about the cobras and bears. This is where it gets interesting. You see, they put a corresponding number of bears and cobras all in a cage, together. Each bear and cobra in the cage belongs to one of the adcoms. The adcoms divide the remaining half of the apps and let the animals go at it. The results determine who gets in:</p>
<p>Bear beats snake: Admitted.</p>
<p>Bear beats snake, but dies: Rematch between new bear and new snake.</p>
<p>Snake beats bear: Not Admitted.</p>
<p>Snake beats bear, but snake bleads to death: Admitted.</p>
<p>Bear beats Bear: Admitted plus scholarship.</p>
<p>Snake beats snake: Banned from University, forever...</p>
<p>Neither wins: Yet to occur. </p>
<p>So there you have it, the UC system application review process.</p>
<p>Come on. They used the sorting hat from Harry Potter.</p>
<p>You are all wrong.</p>
<p>All applications go to Chuck Norris, who then roundhouse kicks every single one of them. If he doesn't roundhouse kick your application to oblivion, you're in.</p>
<p>ok on a very serious note...my method is the correct method (no sarcasm like you crazy nuts)</p>
<p>The 3 person committee thing sounds more plausible. I don't think a university will accept students solely based on one person's decision on an application. </p>
<p>However, the most plausible of all is that of the Chuck Norris hypothesis.</p>
<p>dude, the admission people are really messed up if they really admit people through such crappy methods. shouldn't they at least see that ur gpa is high and major requirements completed before they do stuff like throwing the papers up and admitting the ones that lie face up?</p>
<p>i seriously doubt if the uc's do ANY of those crazy stuff.
THIS is the WAY to GURANTEED admission to all uc's:
4.0 gpa, 100 EC's, major completion, and most importantly, in ur essays mention that u carry a rabbit's foot in ur backback for good luck.</p>
<p>writing about wearing the hide of a toy poodle on ur head will also do. writing about any kind of object that singifies that u have killed a hare or any sort of animal that looks like a hare will guarantee ur admission. the uc people think any small living thing with white fur brings bad luck to their school.</p>
<p>never admit that u killed a rat, because those are sacred beasts that they very much valued.</p>
<p>86 people read it</p>
<p>YOUR ALL WRONG!! 3 people collaboratively take turns farting on everyones papers...when they run out of farts...they run out of acceptances.</p>
<p>oh and before that they eat a can of beans with milk, eggs and a fish stuffed with cheese with raw broccoli and broiled cabbage.</p>
<p>You're more likely to be accepted if they're exhausted and reading your papers towards the end of the day compared to when they're in a fresh state of mind in the morning...j/k, but it's something to think about. Lots of uncontrollable factors contribute to whether you'll get accepted or not. Like iwanatransfer alluded to, if they gotta do a number 2 just as your paper was about to get good, they'll go and when they return to read your papers, the beautiful flow of your painstakenly written paper is lost. Haha...In the words of comedian George Carlin, "These are the things I think about when I'm home alone and the power goes out..."</p>
<p>thats totally true ee_stu</p>