Ryt wrote:
Any info on the stats??
From an earlier post on interview potential stats:
romanmissionary wrote:
Last year, adcom sent out between 550-600 invites during R1 (see MBA Admissions blog, Dec 19 2008)... given the above assumptions, we have between 12.9% and 22.6% interview invitation rate for Stanford R1.
As far as admissions rates go, Derrick Bolton stated that at ~800 interviews, Stanford would be able to invite ~60% to attend the school (see Stanford MBA Blog, Mythbusters Archives, 30 November 2007). 60% of 800 is 480 - which then would let us know an approximate yield of Stanford admitted students (if class size is ~380 and admission is 480, the yield percentage would be ~80%).
If we assume that adcom's yield projection is the same (which isn't true - yield increases in rough financial years), then we say that they will invite 480 to attend Stanford this year. Assuming that the acceptance rate is equally interspersed among interviewees regardless of round (so that rounds with more interviews get more acceptances), we would have a 60% acceptance rate at 800 interviews and a 40% acceptance rate at 1200 interviews. Going to the extreme, if Stanford sends 600 R1 interviews and only 800 total, then we would have 360 acceptances R1. That's way too high; I remember reading somewhere (sorry, I'm not sure of the reference) that R1 admits were close to 230 for last year. 230 admits would be much closer to the other extreme - if Stanford does 550 interviews R1 and then does 1200 total. That would end in 220 acceptances - which I think is probably pretty accurate and fits with the 40% of interviewees getting an acceptance.
If we make all those assumptions plus those of the earlier post (some of which are good, some of which may be completely bogus), between 12.9% and 22.6% of R1 applicants get an interview invitation (probably close to 17% - one in every six - is my guess) and 40% of those are accepted - which means that the acceptance rate for R1 would be between 5% and 9%. I would guess ~6.8% - meaning that about 1 in every 15 applicants would be admitted from ~3300 applicants for ~220 admits R1. The numbers may not be completely accurate, especially due to changing yields, but that's my best guess.