The Admissions Machine

Sixty minutes on one real application, live. Sol reads it first: the schools it should be aimed at, the story each of those schools wants to hear, and the aid programs attached to them. Then Feiyang Liu reads the same file the way a UC Berkeley admissions officer reads it, out loud, and you watch where the machine and the officer agree and where they part.

We go end to end through the entire process, from first list to final decision: what a reader actually sees in a file, which parts carry weight and which do not, how a list gets balanced across reach and likely admits, and where families lose ground without ever knowing it happened. Nico Berlingeri walks through the machine underneath, built on the largest admissions database anywhere and now running for 50,000+ students.

Built for families in the middle of the process, and for students who want to see the read before they are on the receiving end of it. Bring an application or bring questions. Run with Your Epic Consulting.

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