An example of how colleges may view applicants

Applying to College
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<p>I had found this chart on a college web site awhile back. It’s a good graphical view of how colleges set up their thresholds and partition, ,and a good way to look at the lay of the land so to speak.</p>

<p>Obvious different schools have different thresholds, but alot I think follow the same general flow and logic.</p>

<p><a href=“http://usfweb2.usf.edu/admissions/pdf/2006-07%20Grid%20for%20publication%2020060731.pdf[/url]”>http://usfweb2.usf.edu/admissions/pdf/2006-07%20Grid%20for%20publication%2020060731.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Interesting, looks like I would have gotten in easily at USF.</p>

<p>Thats a pretty cool chart though</p>

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<p>The most selective schools, however, aren’t able to differentiate so easily. It would make it a lot easier to know where you stand.</p>

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<p>Public universities are likely to follow such a rubric for in-state students because public universities have to report to their state’s taxpayers, and need to have an admission systems that is easy to understand and seems fair.</p>

<p>The more selective private colleges are, the less likely they would follow the kind of system that you showed because they have so many high stat applicants that such colleges could fill their classes up many times if they just accepted students based in grades and test scores.</p>

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<p>I agree that most selective will be different, but I would say that the number of admit blocks will be much smaller, the deny blocks will be much bigger and the remaining applicants in the middle get additional criteria as you said to go along with the grade matrix.</p>

<p>Of course if John is an all state Tuba player and the band needs 7 Tuba players and John’s marks aren’t quite at the Thresholds it adds that other dimension that isn’t easily shown graphically.</p>