Timeline for Would it be possible to rank North American graduate schools from "most competitive" to "least competitive" (in terms of admission)?
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| Apr 28, 2021 at 4:15 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | @John - You haven't fully grasped what I wrote. There are NO useful quantitative indicators. It's all qualitative. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 3:44 | comment | added | John | I fully understand what you stated in the answer: the admission is not based on GRE/GPA. Whether or not the data is useless is another question. Again, it was my failure to put an emphasis on GRE/GPA in the question, as I am interested in any indicators that could be used in this context. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 3:38 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | Also, when I am part of graduate admissions, I usually don't even look at GRE scores. Particularly for international applicants, I find them about as useful as knowing the height of the applicant. I'll look at grades in the context of recommendation letters, but not GPA. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 3:38 | comment | added | John | For example, see cis.upenn.edu/graduate/how-to-apply/admissions-statistics, but many other schools provide similar data. There could be other useful criteria... I only used GPA/GRE as an example. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 3:32 | comment | added | John | @AlexanderWoo Ideally, it would be possible to break the data down (at least) by subject. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 3:29 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | @John - If you don't think carefully about how you calculate this, probably all you'll find out is which universities have the largest med schools (because large med schools means lots of biology/health PhD funding which means large biology PhD programs compared to everything else and those are probably outliers one way or the other for GPA/GRE scores) | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 3:29 | comment | added | John | @BryanKrause I agree, GPA is not very relevant, but GRE is a reasonably objective measure. However, there could be other statistics that one can gather. Either way, I know that in some countries some regulators and/or professional societies collect this type of information and make it available publicly. I was merely wondering if this is the case in the US/Canada. It appears that it is not, it also appears that I failed to produce a good question... | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 3:07 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @John I'd say that this answer is arguing that wouldn't make sense. Universities aren't admitting on those criteria, so even if you had the data it wouldn't necessarily mean much. GPA also doesn't mean much if you don't know what schools those GPAs come from and lots of programs don't require GREs. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 2:54 | comment | added | John | Thank you for your long comment. It is helpful. However, note that there is additional information contained in the body of the question. I mention that I am interested not only in the requirements but also in the admission standards. It is possible to collect the GRE/GPA of admitted students and sort the universities based on the score. This information is available from the websites of many universities/individual schools. I was merely wondering if there are some (e.g., government) databases that collect/store this type of information. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 2:16 | history | answered | Alexander Woo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |