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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So big universities get so many thousands of applications. UCLA got around 150,000. Without the sat/act as a starting point to weed people out, how do they do it? I mean, like, physically how could they possible look through them all? Does some computer algorithm take a first pass and kick out the applications that don’t have certain keywords? Even if they hire a bunch of people to do first reads, what are they looking for?

There must be so many similar applications. I just don’t get it. How is it possible?[/quote]

At the UCs, they have a formula for recalculating the GPA. They also require A-G classes (you can look it up), so if there’s no fine arts class, the app gets booted. The new GPA + A-G requirement weeds out many apps. From there, they have hired tons of temps to read the application.

You are right though - a pile of apps like that is would be a beast to process![/quote]

This is exactly the kind of insightful info I was hoping to get. I had no idea about A-G classes. I just looked it up. But yes … still tons of students must fulfill those requirements. It just seems impossible to truly look at every application. So it’s all people, then, not computers? I figured they ran them through some computer program.

Any other insight like PP’s would be truly helpful. [/quote]

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