NY Times and some 2011 admit rates

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Big story on the NY Times about graduate education in general. But this caught my eye: they actually tried to compile a list of 2011 admit rates.

Notably absent is Wharton, which also did not disclose their 2011 admit rate in that Poets & Quants piece published last week. The ones with the asterisk are older 2010 rates. As the intro itself suggests, bear in mind these are preliminary.

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Rubashov1 · Answer

The most interesting part to me is GW's tuition and fees: $74K!!!

jordanhendrix · Answer

Wow at Georgetown's 45% admit rate! 
And Is there an article? The link goes to the graphic...thanks"

dalillama · Answer

No article on the admissions rate, though the first link is to a section on graduate education which has a few MBA-related articles.

method · Answer

This is one of the few sources I've seen with quartile information. Major sites typically list 10th-90th percentile, so this is certainly an interesting point of information. Thanks!

MBAUncle · Answer

Wow, cool data... Makes me proud to have turned down other top 5 program to attend a middle-of-nowhere school :-D

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JoelCairo · Answer

What in God's name is going on with Babson there? + 13  change in a year when apps are down?  59%  admit rate when BC and BU are half that? You'd think Babson would try harder to defend its "Best of the Rest in New England" rep rather than diluting itself like this. Is the school in dire need of tuition dollars or something?

jko · Answer

/shrug. It you're trying to keep a standard class size, then less apps means higher admission rate.

JoelCairo · Answer

True but everyone else is swimming in the same "reduced apps incoming" pool as Babson, but only Babson and GW increased their admit rate by double digits. And Babson went up a third again more than GW. I mean,   59 %  admittance? That's virtually in Unranked territory. I'm just surprised Babson has chosen to throw its selectivity overboard so enthusiastically.

cheetarah1980 · Answer

Just because 59% of applicants were admitted doesn't mean selectivity is diminished. I would say that the majority of applicants are qualified to attend the schools to which they apply. In years with large applicant pools a larger number of these qualified people must be turned away, often for trivial reasons. Fewer apps means they can simply admit a higher percentage of their qualified applicants. Something can be selective based on the criteria it sets, not necessarily the number of people who meet that criteria.

JoelCairo · Answer

Not to be nitpicky, but an increase of 13 percentage points to 59% admit rate does by definition mean selectivity is diminished.

The "criteria" point you make reflects on the calibur of applicants, not the selectivity of the school. Selectivity is simply the ratio of admits to apps. A school can have a massive influx of 800 GMAT apps one year, but if it dings a lower percentage of apps than it did the year before, it has reduced its selectivity. At 59% admitted, Babson has now become the second least selective school on that list.

I should also say that I'm not slagging on Babson out of malice. I grew up close to Wellesley and actually worked several summers at Babson College Bookstore during high school. So I know the school fairly well and have quite a soft spot for it. I'm just surprised to see it as such an outlier in these numbers, and I'm curious as to why.

rjkaufman21 · Answer

Hmm interesting, so those GPA's are the middle 50% as well correct?

secondtime · Answer

This is great data to use for finding hidden gems during the school selection process. Look for target schools with relatively high acceptance rates and quality career results. I'm sure there are a few in there.

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beagle46 · Answer

A 32% admission rate to Ross?! Is this right? I wonder if this factors in EMBA, Part-time MBA, etc. That number seems very high.

JoelCairo · Answer

Now that this thread has been bumped I should probably chime in to say I got some info regarding my question about Babson's skyrocketing admit rate: I've been told that they are increasing the size of their historically very small (160 or so) class. In a year when total incoming apps were down across the B-school spectrum, Babson necessarily had to decrease selectivity in order to fill an increased number of seats in the class, assuming an unchanged yield.

FlyMonk321 · Answer

There was only a +1% increase in admissions, and it's 2010 Businessweek profile ( https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/ra ... higan.html ) has full-time acceptance at 25%, so I'm assuming it has to factor in other admissions.

NY Times and some 2011 admit rates

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