<![CDATA[New student admission is a crucial process in educational institution management because it determines the quality of accepted students. The Mathlaul Anwar Foundation offers several selection pathways: scholarships, report card grades, achievement pathways, and transfer pathways. Currently, the selection process is still conducted manually, resulting in various problems such as delays in data processing, potential calculation errors, lack of objectivity, and low transparency of selection results. This research aims to develop a web-based New Student Selection System using the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method as a decision support system to assist in the ranking process and determine student graduation objectively and measurably. The research methods used include observation, interviews, and documentation. The system development utilizes the Waterfall model, which consists of the stages of needs analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. The implementation results show that the system is able to reduce the selection process time from an average of 5 days to 2 days (a time efficiency of 60%). The process of calculating grades and ranking, which was previously done manually for approximately 120 minutes for 100 applicants, can be accelerated to approximately 15 minutes using the system (an efficiency increase of 87.5%). System testing using the Black Box method on 20 test scenarios showed a 100% functional success rate according to user requirements. In addition, the results of the SAW method calculation validation showed 100% accuracy compared to manual calculations. Thus, the application of the SAW method in the web-based new student selection system has been proven to be able to increase the efficiency, accuracy, objectivity, and transparency of the selection process at the Mathlaul Anwar Foundation.]]>
