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COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID
Policy for Frosh Admission Holistic Review
May 27, 2011</p>
<p>Use of UCLA and UCB Holistic Scores</p>
<p>Students who have applied to both UCSC and either UCB or UCLA will not be read again by UCSC readers, saving substantial resources that would be considered duplicative in nature. UCSC would accept the read from UCB/UCLA to be equal to our own campus score. In the case where an applicant has both a UCB and a UCLA score, those two scores would be averaged. By adopting this method of using other campus' holistic scores, the work load for the Admissions staff will be reduced. More importantly, UCSC reviewers will then be able to concentrate on reading applicants who either did not apply to UCB/UCLA, or those who received a UCB/UCLA score that requires a UCSC tie-break review.</p>
<p>Once UCSC's admission target is set (this is the number of offers of admission needed to achieve the campus‟s enrollment target for any given term), a UCB holistic score and a UCLA holistic score would be considered exactly the same as the UCSC holistic score. UCSC readers will read all applications which will not be read at UCB or UCLA. The lower the holistic score, the higher the chance for admission. When the holistic scoring band would yield too many admits, UCSC will employ tie-breaking procedures (see below) that weight certain factors more heavily. These factors embody criteria that are highly valued by UCSC's faculty.
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<p>Source: <a href="http://senate.ucsc.edu/senate-meetings/agendas-minutes/2011-may-27-senate-meeting/CAFA052711scp1674.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://senate.ucsc.edu/senate-meetings/agendas-minutes/2011-may-27-senate-meeting/CAFA052711scp1674.pdf</a>, page 2.</p>
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COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID
Annual Report, 2010-11
November 9, 2011</p>
<p>CAFA approved the use of UCB and UCLA reading scores to be used in the UCSC selection process. Data provided by the UC Office of President showed that the holistic scores from these two campuses already aligned with UCSC's admissions decisions, and by adopting this strategy, CAFA has sought a more cost-effective approach to implementing a comprehensive review model, namely Holistic Review. CAFA is open to the possibility of using other UC campus's holistic scores in the future, if the data from OP proves similar to that of UCB and UCLA.
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<p>Source: <a href="http://senate.ucsc.edu/senate-meetings/agendas-minutes/2011-november-09-senate-meeting/CAFAar1011-scp1677.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://senate.ucsc.edu/senate-meetings/agendas-minutes/2011-november-09-senate-meeting/CAFAar1011-scp1677.pdf</a>, page 7.</p>
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Minutes - Committee on Admissions & Financial Aid (CAFA)
January 11, 2012</p>
<p>Holistic Review Update</p>
<p>The Admissions Office has completed training for holistic review and begun reading applications. There are 21 readers this year. With the cross-over of UCSC applicants in the UCB and UCLA pools accounting for 56% of all applications, our readers still must read slightly more than 14,000 applications. While this is around 2,000 less than under the old quantitative (also Comprehensive Review) policy, the overall complexity of the reviews will be more time consuming.</p>
<p>It was brought to the committee's attention that issues have arisen with the UCB tool, and certain inflexibilities have led Admissions leadership to assert they would not use it again, unless they were addressed. While statistics on the reading would be premature so early in the process, Admissions plans to provide CAFA with both mid-stream data and reporting afterward on the scoring and outcomes under holistic review.
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