elcapitano Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Anyone have any ideas? I guess one could get an estimate by counting up acceptance and rejections to a couple of places that publish the # of apps and acceptances and comparing? Has anyone been so desperate for diversionary activities that they've done this in the past? I'd guess that a higher portion of acceptances than rejections get posted... I ask because some places seem to like to send rejections out first in dribs and drabs (Duke, Cornell i'm looking at you), of course rejections might be overrepresented at these places because of the way they do things which would screw things up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filroz Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 My guestimate is cca 1/7. I counted it last year, but I do not remember the procedure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krabby Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 My guestimate is cca 1/7. I counted it last year, but I do not remember the procedure. My guess is considerably less than 1/7 (there are over 200 universities, each university with about 20 departments, and each department getting roughly 100 applicants when the total applicant pool is averaged between them). Yea...there's no sound statistical evidence backing up this claim but it sounds feasible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elcapitano Posted February 4, 2009 Author Share Posted February 4, 2009 My guestimate is cca 1/7. I counted it last year, but I do not remember the procedure. Ha ha. I knew someone probably had but I didn't expect them to reply 2 minutes after posting. 1/7 sounds pretty reasonable to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Rule Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 My experience is that enough acceptances/rejections are posted for you on gradcafe (or shared on TestMagic) to determine whether schools send the acceptances all at once, rejections all at once, or in dibs and drabs for either category like you say. I don't believe gradcafe is good for much more than that, so I don't see much value in further analysis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treblekicker Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I wouldn't worry too much about it. If nothing got posted on here or on gradcafe on any given day, it's likely that no more than one or two people heard anything that day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoreEcon Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 My experience is that enough acceptances/rejections are posted for you on gradcafe (or shared on TestMagic) to determine whether schools send the acceptances all at once, rejections all at once, or in dibs and drabs for either category like you say. I don't believe gradcafe is good for much more than that, so I don't see much value in further analysis. ^^^This is totally correct. Trust gradcafe when you see 10+ similar postings. There's always some jerk posting 2 or 3 fake Harvard/MIT econ admits each year. Ignore them. And there is almost always someone on TM to confirm legit gradcafe posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Internationalstudent08 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I have a feeling that the rate varies *a lot* by university... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filroz Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 There's always some jerk posting 2 or 3 fake Harvard/MIT econ admits each year. And what about Paris School of Economics? :D But I agree that it varies a lot. I think 1/7 was for schools for which there was enough data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bscout Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 17.68% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bravedreamji Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I compared some with their university websites' data. It really varies from school to school. Like, columbia, total # of app is 700, but in grad cafe only 52. The number of admitted that show up at gradcafe could be relatively stable as 1/2 to 2/3, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elcapitano Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 I was more interested in how many real rejections x posted rejections implies (from schools that send out rejections first) this would kindof tell us how far we are from acceptances. I counted for Cornell, and last year their were 17 rejections before the first acceptance, and in the previous year 10. So far this year we're on 12 but I get the feeling that we're not close to acceptances so I guess the whole thing is a wash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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