<p>I'm doing an AP stats project on the correlation between the number of colleges applied to, and the number accepted to. So far, I cannot find any data whatsoever on this, whether it be national or local. Does anyone know if these statistics exist, or where I may find them? I have tried googling, etc.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>You can find the number of applicants and the number of those selected for admission on collegeboard.com</p>
<p>common data sets, too</p>
<p>I think the OP means the number of colleges a student applies and the number they get accepted to.</p>
<p>Try asking seniors at your school, that's the best bet.</p>
<p>Or make them up with a bell curve.</p>
<p>Yeah, ask all the seniors at your school. Or start a thread here. Or look around, a thread probably exists here already.</p>
<p>Obviously stats should teach you something about data gathering methods and experimental design. Get a list of your school's seniors and assign them numbers. Generate X random numbers and bug them to tell you their stats. That's what stats students at my school does.</p>
<p>Momentum, data doesn't exist. You can infer things tough from the data in USNWR. </p>
<p>I've actually done a similar project where I calculated number of schools an average student (student filling base requirements at certain schools, profile similar to average acceptee) would need to apply to to ensure a 90% success rate of getting into the college type he was searching for.</p>