As of the 2023-2024 admissions cycle, programs will receive a single combined Casper score for applicant’s responses to typed and video response sections. Applicants must complete all response sections in order to produce a valid Casper score for distribution to programs.

Each section of the test is scored by a unique rater. This means that every applicant is assessed by 14 different human raters, who come from a variety of working backgrounds and are intended to represent the general population of the country in which you will go on to study.

The resulting Casper score is made up of 14 unique rater impressions. This allows us to dilute any bias that one rater’s subjectivity may bring to the table. Your responses are also completely anonymized, meaning they only receive your typed reply and are not provided with any personal information (i.e. your name, age, photo, etc).

Raters are assigned to a particular scenario from a Casper test and provided with relevant instructions and background knowledge about the topic at hand. Once prepared, raters are served responses from one scenario and multiple different applicants to rate. It’s important to note that no rater will ever score an applicant more than once. Raters are also trained to disregard spelling and grammatical mistakes when evaluating responses and to focus solely on the content of the response.

The 14 independent ratings are averaged, and scores are then standardized to represent the relative rankings of each applicant compared to the applicant pool.

Each rater completes a training session and accreditation before they are permitted to score Casper responses.

At this time, applicants do not receive their Casper score. For more information about this, please see our article titled Will I Receive My Casper Score?