The way I read it is that they don’t even look at it. When they also tell you that character/personal qualities are not considered and that recommendations are not important, they’re telling us something. Furthermore, they tell us straight out that admissions decisions are base on grades and class rank and that they also rate rigor. As a secondary criterion, test scores are a factor. In other words, they crunch numbers to decide who gets in and who doesn’t. They also give priority to in state applicants. Nothing unusual about this for a big state school except that they may be more honest about it than most.
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