aak1985
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Updated the rollcall - 111 reported applicants in R1 - from the people who reported their decision -
17 admits
12 dings
42 waitlisted
I had a look at the spreadsheet upfront. I think the problem is that there are quite a few people with incomplete information. A more relevant stat for us right now is looking at those who have interviewed. Out of 111 reported R1 applicants, there were 81 who interviewed (in fact 4 of the dings in the numbers above were from people who have not interviewed).
Interviewed = 81
Admits = 17
Dings = 8
Waitlisted = 42
Unreported = 14
Based on previous years about 40% of those interviewed receive admits from Wharton (43% P&Q says). So instead of ~30-35 admits there are at the moment only 17. Of course, 14 people haven't reported their final decision - a relatively large number. If all those people received an admit, then the numbers do fall in line with Wharton's admit rate from previous years.
I may be missing something here in my analysis, but I don't think it quite works to look at the spreadsheet because of missing information. Overall, I would say that based on general discussions on GMAT club and BW and assessments from Sandy on these forums, it just 'feels' like the waitlist is overloaded this year and we don't really know why.
I agree the missing information throws off the data. I would think the number of waitlisters on this sheet is likely the most up-to-date, as waitlisters would benefit the most from having current information to estimate their chances of admission and would thus be incentivized to update their own info. The number of accepts/dings is probably less than actual.
Therefore, if the rest of you have not updated your information, please do so. However, given such a large waitlist (even though it seems a bit overloaded), it seems the chances of getting off this waitlist are not great.
If Wharton takes the standard question approach with R2 interviewees as it did with R1, this will definitely give an unfair advantage to R2 applicants, making it more difficult to weed out candidates who are interviewed, thus making the waitlist and pool of "middle-of-the-road" applicants larger. I definitely think they should change the interview approach going forward ...
19 Dec 2010, 11:51
