<p>According to some people on this board, in some borderline cases, the UCs might look at your 12th grade semester 1 grades to finalize their decision. (an example is for people who have excellent essays, perhaps a low GPA but high SAT)</p>
<p>has anyone had this happen to them? about how often do the UCs do this?</p>
<p><em>1 month later</em></p>
<p>bump</p>
<p>I've never heard of this.</p>
<p>it rare, but does happen, mostly for kids who are low income, attend low income schools, first gen to college, or have other extenuating circumstances. It's called "augmented review."</p>
<p>I hope it works for me. XD</p>
<p>Bluebayou is correct. There's a surprising amount of information about augmented review if you google it.</p>
<p>Thank God my senior grades won't count for UCs, being a "rich" white guy from an educated family. ;P</p>
<p>i googled augmented review and the only thing that talks about it is some weird Berkeley PDF websites. i'd like to know more about this process because i might be borderline...can you give us info, bartleby?</p>
<p>To quote what you can find via Google:</p>
<p>To be granted Augmented Review, an applicant must be close to being competitive for admission but lacking essential information or particularly challenging because of unique circumstances. If a supervisor approves the AR, then the OUA contacts the applicant and asks her or him to fill out a detailed questionnaire known as a Pre-Admission Questionnaire or PAQ (disabled students get one form of the questionnaire; applicants getting AR for some other reason get another form). AR also offers applicants the opportunity to submit seventh-semester grades and letters of recommendations from high school teachers or outreach program counselors familiar with the applicants’ work. When these materials are returned, they are reviewed by senior admissions readers in a process similar to the regular reading process: two readers review each file and each assigns a unitary score, scores that differ by one point are averaged, and files that receive scores more than one point apart are sent to a third reader. Depending on the size of the AR pool and the distribution of scores, AR candidates may be subject to a tie-breaking process similar to that of the regular reading process.</p>