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Hey everybody. Because I got bored and have a weird sense of fun, I decided to poke around at the AAMC Table A-1 (Apps and Matriculants by School, State, and Sex).
We often hear some schools described on these boards as "low yield," such as Georgetown, because they have such an insane applicant volume every year. I thought it might be interesting to adjust for class size and see what schools have the most Applications per Seat. The full Table A1 dataset sorted by this metric is available here.
Here are the 25 schools with the most Apps per Seat. Light orange indicates the school's class composition is 70%+ instate.
You can compare that to the top 25 by sheer applicant volume, without adjustment for class size:
This same AAMC table also provides information about male and female apps/matriculants per school. Here are the 15 schools with the largest majorities male and female among their matriculants:
Slightly more interesting is comparing the gender balance among applicants vs matriculants for each university. There are a surprising number of schools in which men/women matriculate in different proportion than they apply. Some cases are pretty big, for example Duke, where 54% of applicants are male but 41% of matriculants are male. With arbitrary cutoffs at +/- 7.5% and using the data for men:
Enjoy! Sorry for the giant wall post.
We often hear some schools described on these boards as "low yield," such as Georgetown, because they have such an insane applicant volume every year. I thought it might be interesting to adjust for class size and see what schools have the most Applications per Seat. The full Table A1 dataset sorted by this metric is available here.
Here are the 25 schools with the most Apps per Seat. Light orange indicates the school's class composition is 70%+ instate.
You can compare that to the top 25 by sheer applicant volume, without adjustment for class size:
This same AAMC table also provides information about male and female apps/matriculants per school. Here are the 15 schools with the largest majorities male and female among their matriculants:
Slightly more interesting is comparing the gender balance among applicants vs matriculants for each university. There are a surprising number of schools in which men/women matriculate in different proportion than they apply. Some cases are pretty big, for example Duke, where 54% of applicants are male but 41% of matriculants are male. With arbitrary cutoffs at +/- 7.5% and using the data for men:
Enjoy! Sorry for the giant wall post.
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