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The following list is based on the number of views for each (Calling all ... 2011 applicants) Fourm:

School Number of forum views by early morning 3/15/2011
1. CBS 426059
2. HBS 390215
3. Wharton 381108
4. Kellog 332823
5. Booth 329590
6. Stanford 271704
7. MIT 261347
8. Tuck 221139
9. Stern 190749
10. Duke 184098
11. Haas 165081
12. Yale 144396
13. Darden 107995
14. UCLA 103139
15. Cornell 101120
16. Texas 94253
17. Tepper 54109
18. USC 44917
19. Gtown 34088
20. Kelley 21862
21. ND 13715
22. Emory 13468
23. UW Foster 13248
24. Simon 12603
25. BU 10007
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What amazes me isn't the order, but the difference in the views between the very top and some near the bottom.

For instance, 20x more page views of CBS vs. Kelley (app numbers are about 5.5x difference)? That is just mind blowing to me. Of course, i've been known to just "view" some of the top schools threads and I never applied there, so that would likely skew the numbers a bit.


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The following list is based on the number of views for each (Calling all ... 2011 applicants) Fourm:

School Number of forum views by early morning 3/15/2011
1. CBS 426059
2. HBS 390215
3. Wharton 381108
4. Kellog 332823
5. Booth 329590
6. Stanford 271704
7. MIT 261347
8. Tuck 221139
9. Stern 190749
10. Duke 184098
11. Haas 165081
12. Yale 144396
13. Darden 107995
14. UCLA 103139
15. Cornell 101120
16. Texas 94253
17. Tepper 54109
18. USC 44917
19. Gtown 34088
20. Kelley 21862
21. ND 13715
22. Emory 13468
23. UW Foster 13248
24. Simon 12603
25. BU 10007
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Gmatclub's Top 25 B-Schools (by popularity) 15 Mar 2011, 06:58
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It looks like you missed UNC. I just checked and the school had ~52,000 views.
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Gmatclub's Top 25 B-Schools (by popularity) 15 Mar 2011, 07:15
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Lets do this gmat style:
Assumption:
All threads were started around the same time:
Fact CBS has EA and hence a much earlier deadline.

So its not necessarily the most popular.

Assumption 2:
All posts are related to the school for which the thread was started.

Some of these threads have people talking about stuff from other schools to even basketball (DUKE)
so that also muffles up these stats.

I thought about this a while ago and its fun to see it but it doesnt really mean anything
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The following list is based on the number of views for each (Calling all ... 2011 applicants) Fourm:

School Number of forum views by early morning 3/15/2011
1. CBS 426059
2. HBS 390215
3. Wharton 381108
4. Kellog 332823
5. Booth 329590
6. Stanford 271704
7. MIT 261347
8. Tuck 221139
9. Stern 190749
10. Duke 184098
11. Haas 165081
12. Yale 144396
13. Darden 107995
14. UCLA 103139
15. Cornell 101120
16. Texas 94253
17. Tepper 54109
18. USC 44917
19. Gtown 34088
20. Kelley 21862
21. ND 13715
22. Emory 13468
23. UW Foster 13248
24. Simon 12603
25. BU 10007
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Where is Ross?
Ross should be 6th (297637 views)
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You are right, I missed some schools... I guess I just missed them in the midst of all of the threads. Hmmm... My fault. Still fun to consider.
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Gmatclub's Top 25 B-Schools (by popularity) 15 Mar 2011, 09:07
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and Kellogg is missing a "g"
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Lets do this gmat style:
Assumption:
All threads were started around the same time:
Fact CBS has EA and hence a much earlier deadline.

So its not necessarily the most popular.

Assumption 2:
All posts are related to the school for which the thread was started.

Some of these threads have people talking about stuff from other schools to even basketball (DUKE)
so that also muffles up these stats.

I thought about this a while ago and its fun to see it but it doesnt really mean anything
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Just for fun sakes...

I could argue that Tuck and Haas have lower class strengths which relate to a relatively lower number of people applying to those schools compared to CBS that takes in more than two times those schools' numbers (240 versus ~600?). Implies - fewer people applying to Tuck on GC than people applying to CBS, so less traffic on those threads for Tuck versus CBS :?:

So "popularity" is somewhat skewed

A better way would be to divide the total number of views by the students enrolled(better number would be admitted)

For example -

CBS weighted number would come out to be about 710 (views/600) and Haas would be 688 (views/240)? Even better number would be views/admitted. So now we could compare the weighted numbers and then conclude what are the popular ones? :idea: :idea:

Assuming similar percentage of people who apply visit GC forum :lol: