<p>I have heard that a few colleges just put the stats into a computer with auto admit and deny feature, example UIUC. Are there any other colleges?</p>
<p>I believe University of Missouri, Lousiana State University, University of South Carolina (so they say but i doubt it), and Harvard (LOL JK)</p>
<p>Wow…that’s pretty ridiculous…someone who works hard for 4 years to get into a college gets slammed by a computer in 10 seconds…</p>
<p>come on they are not private they cant read every app, they recieve like loads</p>
<p>Actually, the UCs have something similar, but they use it as part of the human admission process. They plug your stats (accomplishments, scores, GPA or whatever) into a formula, and then that formula spits out a number. If you have a low/high number, then you’re a clear admit/reject, but those in between are scrutinized by adcoms.</p>
<p>What UIUC does is common but it is not what you think it is. Each college (engineering, busines, LAS etc.) can provide to admissions thresholds for class rank and test score and designation of courses taken which generates, based on a formula, a predicted college GPA. The computer then can automatically admit those who are above a high threshold and designate as probable deny for those below a low threshold (however, each denial file gets some review to assure no special circumstances apply). The result is that a number of applicants in the higher statisical levels may be automatically admitted by the computer but then the majority of applicants, who are between the high and low thresholds, get reviewed individually. What the thresholds are vary among the colleges and change from year to year and the business college has no automatic admits because it does not submit any threshold values since it insists on reviewing every file. In other words, it is a system designed to avoid the need of reviewing files for those who would be easy admits.</p>
<p>Though when I read the UC admission report from 2005, I saw that the kids who received picket fence rankings all got in… So I’m talking about the ‘perfect’ applicants here. Very, very few recieved picket fence rankings.</p>