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Category: Stanford Admissions
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Actually, you can more than triple your chances, on a purely mathematical basis. But First: Who should read this post–Anybody interested in applying to the Ivy League or to Stanford this year. How to read this post: Below you will find a (long) preface that gives some context to the data and offers and analogy…
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Who should read this post–anybody who wants an overview of data in admissions for the University of California, and anybody who wants to understand the use of waitlists and waitlist admits, with a historical perspective that applies all the more in 2020. Also: Anybody who is still innocent enough to think data is just data.…
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What’s in this column: Some news on this year’s Berkeley admissions results; a short history of U.C. admissions (why is it getting so crazy–the answer is partly here); some information on budgets and politics at the U.C. If you do not wish to read more than 140 or so characters at a time, scan for bold…
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In my last post, I took a look at trends in admissions–finding, most notably, that admission rates at the most competitive schools are continuing to trend downward in the single digits. This post will give three year results for all of the Ivy League universities, below, as well as results on other universities that were…
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