Via our friends over at FastCompany.com:
The old standby that killer test scores and a 4.7 GPA is a red carpet into any college in the world hardly abides nowadays. For better or for worse, colleges consider a swarm of additional factors: teacher recommendations, personal essays, extracurriculars, volunteer work, daddies in high places — you know the list.
To help faculty and administrators sift through the gobs of application information they face each year, legendary interaction designer Golan Levin developed an evaluation program called Admitulator for Carnegie Mellon University‘s art school. Admitulator lets users vet the applicant pool according to metrics they favor.
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