Thanks pelihu,
Yes, the waiting is killing! Cannot sleep, cannot enjoy the weekend etc.
As for the data - I also made the same notes as you. H and S definitely are not an oldie-friendly. And as for UCLA f/m ratio - Kellog has almost the same issue. Btw, I think there is a plausible explanation - see below.
Here are some findings in more detail (sorry for the long post):
1. Toughest US Schools to Get Into Admit rates are calculated according to the info on admissions411 and are NOT official.
1. Stanford (10.0%)
2. Harvard (12.9%)
3. Wharton (15.9%)
4-5. Berkeley Haas (17.2%)
4-5. MIT Sloan (18.0%)
6. Columbia (22.5%)
7-8. Yale (26.2%)
7-8. Dartmouth Tuck (26.3%)
9-10. UCLA Anderson (28.2%)
9-10. NW Kellogg (28.6%)
11. NYU Stern (30.5%)
12. Chicago GSB (33.6%)
13. Virginia Darden (36.2%)
14. Cornell (38.8%)
15. Duke Fuqua (45.3%)
16. Michigan Ross (51.1%)
2. Schools Which Do Not Like Oldies:For some schools, the classification was rather subjective… But not for H and S. I agree with pelihu. If you are over 30, you are dead
Almost Impossible to Get Into:Stanford
Harvard
Might Let You In:Kellogg
NYU Stern
UCLA Anderson
Yale
Dartmouth Tuck (not as oldie-friendly as I used to believe)
Rather Decent Chance for Oldies:Wharton
Chicago
MIT
Columbia
Berkeley Haas
Duke Fuqua
Michigan
Darden Virginia (though less than people tend to believe…)
Cornell
Overall, once you’ve turned 28, your chances begin to diminish. Those 30+ are at disadvantage even in comparatively oldies-friendly schools.
3. Assorted Theories verified: ‘Wharton sees no difference between 720 and 770’Wharton GMAT stats:
GMAT N Admitted Admit %
Good (710-730) 16 13,1%
High (740-760) 24 18,3%
Very High (>760) 9 17,6%
Well, technically there is a mild difference, but it is indeed not as pronounced as for, say, Stanford:
Stanford GMAT stats:
GMAT N Admitted Admit %
Average (680-700) 3 5,9%
Good (710-730) 8 8,2%
High (740-760) 10 9,9%
Very High (>760) 9 18,8%
So the statement is true, I think. Although, it definitely matters
who exactly has this GMAT in question… no surprise here.
Wharton Ethnicity stats:
N Admitted Admit %
Caucasian 27 15,9%
Indian+Ind.American 1 1,4% Asian+As.American 15 20,3%
Others or Unknown 18 25,7%
Well, in fact there were 3 Indians admitted, not 1, but as I excluded no-GMAT entries, there is only 1 in the table.
4. Assorted Theories verified:
‘Kellogg is a girlie school’More of an image thing, but it has interesting consequences. ‘Soft’ Kellogg image makes the school more appealing to females, so they apply there more – and that, as you can imagine, leads to the increasing competition between them. As a result, Kellogg’s admit rate for females is
no better than that for males, while at the majority of other Top schools female applicants have better chances than male applicants:
Kellogg Gender stats:
_______________N Admitted___Admit %
Female_____________22________28,9%
Male_______________69________28,5%
Gender stats for all Top 15 (including Kellogg):
________________N Admitted___Admit %
Female____________263______32,6%
Male______________629______22,8%
The only other Top school that seems to have no preference for girls is UCLA:
UCLA Gender stats:
________________N Admitted___Admit %
Female___________8_____________21,1%
Male_____________32____________30,8%
However, there were fewer entries for UCLA, so these stats might be not that accurate.