<p>Is there a website for grad schools/programs that offers the same kind of information that is accessible for undergrad schools in terms of GPA, scores, acceptance rates? Any way to find out this information when compiling a potential list?</p>
<p>No, for several reasons.</p>
<p>1) “Graduate school” is a catch-all term for hundreds of different types of fields, programs, and specialties.</p>
<p>2) GPA & GRE scores are not as helpful in grad admissions, in general, as they are in undergrad. Although most undergrads come straight from high school and are relatively experientially similar, graduate students come from a wide variety of backgrounds. An MPA hopeful with a 3.3 GPA, 1170 GRE and 7 years of management experience at a top nonprofit with excellent references will likely get admitted over an MPA hopeful with a 3.79 + 1400 GRE with no experience. In other words, succeeding at classes isn’t the only important thing for grad school admissions - and in many cases, it’s not really all that important. And the other things to compare students by are less objective.</p>
<p>3) Acceptance rates are meaningless. Again, for undergrad, most students are experientially similar in that they all did 4 years of high school beforehand, with access to similar types of activities (not the exact same ones - but similar <em>types</em>). Acceptance rates there are a bit more telling. But for grad - the acceptance rate to a particular great MBA program may be 54% because people don’t apply until they have worked 3+ years. That doesn’t mean that even a particularly good new graduate is going to get in easily. I actually think the acceptance rate to my top 5 MPH program is over 50%, but the applications are more self-selecting in this field - it’s not a high money field; there are strict work experience requirements (instead of sorting applicants out after the fact) and there’s not a lot of financial aid. Those may limit applicants.</p>
<p>On the flip side, application rates to PhD programs are pretty dismal in isolation. But an outstanding student with a great research track record and great references can be admitted to every program and even be in demand.</p>
<p>4) A lot of grad programs don’t like distributing this information because of all of the above. They don’t want to prevent a 3.3 with outstanding experiences from applying, and they don’t want to encourage a fresh-out 3.8 to apply when they aren’t qualified. So you’ll notice that few academic grad programs publish this information. Professional programs do, sometimes - Columbia’s SIPA has this information on their website, and the business school as well (including average age and years of work experience).</p>
<p>So basically, this information is hard to get but also not very helpful anyway.</p>
<p>Juillet gave a really excellent answer. I just also wanted to add that there may also be factors completely outside everyone’s control such as class/cohort size restrictions which may wildly fluctuate from year to year based on overall funding, last years acceptance/registration rate, etc. My own experience seeing acceptance rates in my program as well as my boyfriend’s has been that it can change from 5% to 30% in just one year. What happened last year may or may not have any relationship to what’s happening this year.</p>