Students are divided into small groups to become college admissions officers who examine 3 applications to a fictitious university. Through the use of a scoring rubric, groups determine which applicant(s) are accepted or rejected. Then students reflect on the process. As an optional extension, students can fill out the fictitious application themselves and the teacher grades them based on how they filled out the application. This is an excellent activity for AVID students to do at the end of junior year or for seniors to do at the beginning of the school year.

Due to COVID-19, some colleges and universities are no longer requiring SAT/ACT scores to be provided as part of the application process. This activity does have students evaluate SAT/ACT scores as part of the application process. If you would like them to not make the scores part of the application process, simply have students give full points to all three "applicants" for the SAT/ACT portion of the application and this will effectively remove the SAT/ACT scores as a factor for admissions.