<p>Interesting to watch. Thanks for posting it!</p>
<p>Here is another find that tells you exactly what the admissions office is looking for in transfer students. To see what the admissions office is looking for go down to p.17 or p.55 where they are talking about Advanced Standing Admissions.
<a href="http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/archives/documents/Moorereport.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/archives/documents/Moorereport.pdf</a></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>If that's the case, I'm doomed. I went a little over the word limit on my essays, which means my app will be heavier and land faster. Damn</p>
<p>Hahahah thats funny.</p>
<p>Sounds like AP grading back in high school. yuck. :P A lottery would be hideous. Imagine the dissapointment at some 3.0 person getting into a difficult major as opposed to someone with a way higher GPA.</p>
<p>Berkeley does not seem that bad at all they base admissions on six different criteria if you look in the report I posted on page 55-56. And some of those have different criteria in themselves.</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>If that's the case, I'm doomed. I went a little over the word limit on my essays, which means my app will be heavier and land faster. Damn</p>
<p>i think it would be the opposite since its initial momentum would be greater and thus more force would be required to slow it down.</p>
<p>This is why I'm majoring in Comm and Sociology and NOT one of the sciences. </p>
<p>My boyfriend, who's majoring in engineering, agrees with you. He also says that this is the kind of thing engineering students joke about in labs, and that no one else could really care less</p>
<p>Moore Report:</p>
<p>"Applicants in the top group of about 15% of the applicants are admitted, and thus constitute half of those to be admitted."</p>
<p>So, by this notion, wouldn't a 4.0 be essentially an automatic acceptance?</p>
<p>Before 2003 yes the top 15% were admitted and if you got a 4.0 chances are you were going to be admitted. However they changed this policy after 2003 according to that report. But don't worry Ektaylor you are pretty much 99% in already.</p>
<p>You guys are hilarious with the window-throwing physics. :)</p>
<p>Here is some insight on UCLA's process:
Admissions</a> Blog :: UCLA Undergraduate Admissions: Ask and You Shall Receive</p>
<p>I wish someone would get their hands on the powerpoint file they use to teach the new application readers</p>
<p>I went back into an email from a friend (Cal alumni) I received a few months ago when I asked her the same question about application scoring...a process in which she takes part. </p>
<p>At least in regards to Cal, this is what she said:</p>
<p>"The people who read the apps are just volunteers
vaguely affiliated with the university. Some are
administrators. Some are students. but others are just
regular folks. Yes, multiple people will read the
essays, and scores get averaged or re-weighted to make
sure there aren't any biasing readers."</p>
<p>She then went on to say that scholarship apps are mostly read by alumni and get even more scrutiny because they are understandably more picky on who they let join their ranks. :)</p>
<p>Good luck all!</p>