Computer Selection  {SNAPPA-5}

Computer selection and the admission of applicants on the basis of that selection will be done automatically when this option is executed.  Computer selection is done on the basis of the WRS scores, as well as additional credit, and takes into account only the first two qualification choices of a student. 

The user is requested to specify the year, academic block and offering type for which the computer selection is to be made.  This combination must currently be active in the system cycle option {SNAPP-1} for application cycle “A”. 

Computer selection will not reset any admission status, that already appears on a student’s record: it will only select students who have no status at all in any of their choices.  Places will be allocated until the quota has been filled for a particular qualification / offering type / period of study combination, as per option {SACADO-5}. 

When Computer Selection is executed, the user must supply the range of student numbers for which the WRS calculations must be done before the selection is made.  In this way applicants for whom the calculations have already been done, can be omitted.  If there is any doubt, it would be better to re-calculate all the scores.  WRS scores can be calculated for a range of students, for a specific block code, for a specific qualification code or all and for offering type: computer selection can only be done per year, block code and offering type. 

The system will then calculate the number of available places by subtracting the admitted students from the quotas as set under option {SACADO-5}.  All admitted statuses are then counted (i.e. any status that leads to (Y)es).  When counting admitted statuses, all choices are taken into account. 

When computer selection is done, the system will first fill the available places for all first choices.  It will then check through the second choices of students.  A student who was not admitted to his / her first choice, but whose WRS score for the second choice is higher than another student who was selected on first choice for the particular qualification, will be admitted and the other student not.

• Procedures:
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