<p>Does anyone know who reviews our application? Is it reviewed by faculty members who teach in the department that we wish to transfer into?</p>
<p>bump10char</p>
<p>They actually feed our applications electronically into a computer program which calculates a continuous numerical value representing the applicant strength; if the value is past the threshold of acceptance you're admitted, if not then sorry.</p>
<p>haha. That not true. If It been like this, how about the personal statement dude?</p>
<p>Its pretty simple:</p>
<p>if( (GPA >= 3.5 && Personal<em>Statement != whiny && units >=60)
|| (Parent</em>Donation >= 25000.00) )
{ return admitted;}
else
{ return rejected;}</p>
<p>If only!</p>
<p>Seriously, I can't speak for every college, but I know that Cal Poly SLO has a separate department for reviewing applicants, and they also get advice from department advisers. For example, the person I've been talking to over the last few months at SLO is an engineering adviser who can help make decisions, but he usually isn't the final word on who gets accepted and who doesn't.</p>
<p>They go to the top of a lecture hall, take all the applications and throw them out the window. The application(s) that land the furthest away are admitted.</p>
<p>lol morecowbell.</p>
<p>haha sabatu must be a cs major.</p>
<p>or engineering or physical science</p>
<p>I have to agree with the computer-calculated eligibility theory here. The parameters are pre-requisite course completion, GPA, then all the intangibles such as essay and EC's.</p>
<p>The following is just my speculation.
If you pass ALL the pre-requisites and have above or equal to the GPA cutoff, then you are accepted. If you don't pass ALL the pre-requisites, then you are rejected. (This is apparently true for Haas).</p>
<p>If you pass ALL the pre-requisites and have a GPA that puts you in range of the GPA cutoff, then your intangibles are evaluated. What they are evaluating for, I believe, are adversity, personal initiative, commitment to activities you enjoy, and whatnot.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, my speculations are somewhat supported by the posts here as well.</p>
<p>tastybeef,</p>
<p>Probably a good guess for many campuses. Notably, though, Berkeley does a holistic review. I think Thedude44 linked to a video showing freshman application review.</p>
<p>--Joe</p>
<p>Yea, I was joking about the computer thing. Two people both read your entire application, and based on the score they give you, you are either accepted or rejected, but on the circumstance of a difference in opinion, your application goes to a senior adcom who makes a final decision.</p>
<p>UCSD for Freshman applications I believe does a point system but I am not sure about transfer students. I know at Berkeley there are two people that evaluate your transfer application. If they both agree you are going to be accepted or rejected. If they have a disagreement then the application will be given to a supervisor that will review the application and have the final say on your admittance. Also Each application I believe is only given a ten minute review. The applications are reviewed by trained members of the admissions department. I really don't believe in the hole mathematical calculations theory. For the most part yes, the most important part of admissions is based on your completion of IGETC (or GEs) your 60 units, GPA, and completion of Major prerequisite courses. However At the UC's such as UCLA and UCB where they get many qualified applicants they look at the entire application as a whole and try to admit the academically qualified students and the ones who stand out from the pack with ec's, personal statement, etc. </p>
<p>Thanks for giving me credit for the video KGZotU but it actually was not me who posted that vid.</p>
<p>A few people already nailed it regarding Cal. To add a little to what they said, I know the two "people" who read and score your app can, and will be, Cal alumni. </p>
<p>I don't know if all the people who originally score them are Cal alumni...as in, there is some giant pool of Cal alumni only that score the personal statements. I'm guessing there are other people in the mix since there are so many applications to read through.</p>
<p>Good luck all.</p>
<p>I posted the vid, but I saw it here in CC many years ago, so credit to the original finder</p>
<p>Good to know. I was trying to name the person so anybody interested could search it. Thanks, BTW, great video. (;</p>
<p>What thread can that be found in? I'd like to see that.</p>
<p>This is more recent, and more in depth than the video is:</p>
<p>PS: I like how every threads invariably turns into something to do with UCB.</p>
<p>There you go. (;</p>