Help Me Understand Big University Process

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Anonymous wrote:What are the temps looking for when they read? Do they get training first?

Yes, there are rubrics and training.

Just hope none of them toss aside rubics and embrace the chaos of randomness when scoring.

They use a quality control process very similar to AP exams — 2 readers, if there’s a discrepancy it goes to a third, if a reader is consistently out of line they get booted.

A UCSB student recently requested to look at his file from last year, and found out there was only 1 reader. Wouldn’t surprise me if this wasn’t a more widespread issue in the UC system.

It was probably a clear case. You don’t need multiple people for clear case. They save the committee stuff for tough cases.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are the temps looking for when they read? Do they get training first?

Yes, there are rubrics and training.

Just hope none of them toss aside rubics and embrace the chaos of randomness when scoring.

They use a quality control process very similar to AP exams — 2 readers, if there’s a discrepancy it goes to a third, if a reader is consistently out of line they get booted.

A UCSB student recently requested to look at his file from last year, and found out there was only 1 reader. Wouldn’t surprise me if this wasn’t a more widespread issue in the UC system.

It was probably a clear case. You don’t need multiple people for clear case. They save the committee stuff for tough cases.

They claim to have 2 readers for every app, not just borderline calls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the temps looking for when they read? Do they get training first?

Yes, there are rubrics and training.

Just hope none of them toss aside rubics and embrace the chaos of randomness when scoring.

They use a quality control process very similar to AP exams — 2 readers, if there’s a discrepancy it goes to a third, if a reader is consistently out of line they get booted.

A UCSB student recently requested to look at his file from last year, and found out there was only 1 reader. Wouldn’t surprise me if this wasn’t a more widespread issue in the UC system.

It was probably a clear case. You don’t need multiple people for clear case. They save the committee stuff for tough cases.

They claim to have 2 readers for every app, not just borderline calls.

They can't even staff up enough to offer enough classes for all students to take a full time load so I would not be surprised if they are also cutting corners in admissions. I can't understand why anyone would pay OOS tuition too go there
https://www.independent.com/2021/09/15/ucsb-course-shortage-at-crisis-level-dean-says/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the temps looking for when they read? Do they get training first?

Yes, there are rubrics and training.

Just hope none of them toss aside rubics and embrace the chaos of randomness when scoring.

They use a quality control process very similar to AP exams — 2 readers, if there’s a discrepancy it goes to a third, if a reader is consistently out of line they get booted.

A UCSB student recently requested to look at his file from last year, and found out there was only 1 reader. Wouldn’t surprise me if this wasn’t a more widespread issue in the UC system.

It was probably a clear case. You don’t need multiple people for clear case. They save the committee stuff for tough cases.

They claim to have 2 readers for every app, not just borderline calls.

They can't even staff up enough to offer enough classes for all students to take a full time load so I would not be surprised if they are also cutting corners in admissions. I can't understand why anyone would pay OOS tuition too go there
https://www.independent.com/2021/09/15/ucsb-course-shortage-at-crisis-level-dean-says/

Hiring readers is different from hiring faculty for start. That said, there may be a pile (or may have been pre get blind) where there was an almost bright line admit for certain stats and confirmed with a single reader so only a deny would get a second read.

[Anonymous]

I always wondered what would happen if a 4.0/1500 kid just wrote a one sentence essay to state U or something.

[Anonymous]

Well, that one kid got into Stanford after writing “Black Lives Matter” a hundred times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always wondered what would happen if a 4.0/1500 kid just wrote a one sentence essay to state U or something.

Depends on whether there was enough in the rest of the application to get them over the admit line.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, that one kid got into Stanford after writing “Black Lives Matter” a hundred times.

Unbelievably ridiculous. Stanford keeps embarrassing itself.
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