Just wondering what the acceptance rate is for Stanford’s Graduate school for the School of Humanities and Sciences?
I’m interested in applying to a Masters or PhD there for Statistics. Any ideas? I can’t seem to find a number anywhere on the internet.
I think the reason you could not find the data anywhere is that it doesn’t exist.
Grad admission is not the same as undergrad. For undergrad, the school has an idea as how many students they can accommodate, and the number of applicants from year to year does change, but in a somewhat predictable fashion
Even the number of grad applicants remained constant, no one can tell you the acceptance rate because the number of applicants accepted varies greatly from year to year. It depends on grants, funding available, availability of professors who can take in advisees, … There have been cases in which a department admitted no candidate for that year.
But as one of my ex-boss told me, in a race, if you are #1, you don’t have to care who #2 is.
That’s for the MS program. Here’s the relevant question:
*How many applicants do you accept each year?
We receive upwards of 500 MS applications each year, and admit approximately 30 applicants for the Statistics M.S. program and 8 for the Data Science program each year.*
That’s an acceptance rate of roughly 7.6%.
I agree, though, that acceptance rates aren’t really all that useful in graduate admissions. Your own odds of admission can be greater or lower depending on your package - while I’m sure that Stanford has their pick of the cream of the crop, it’s also very possible that Stanford also gets a lot of junk applications from unqualified people simply because they’re Stanford and because statistics is a lucrative field right now. The best thing you can do is focus on making your package the most competitive it can be.