What makes a UCLA application stand out?

TTwo readers score every UCLA application today, and the California State Auditor found that a single reader's rating can swing the result. The second look is older than the current system: in the year UCLA described in its alumni magazine, files near the line were reread in full, about four thousand of them, because the chair of its faculty admissions committee believed a single point could change an outcome.

Somewhere in that machinery, a file that was nearly an admit gets another chance to become one. Most families never plan for that moment, assuming a reread simply repeats the first verdict, and for many files it does. Whether a file moves depends on what the second reader finds when they go looking.