<p>Was curious if there was any means of finding the acceptance rate at schools for those students who interviewed to get a better perspective on where I stood in admissions-any ideas?</p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>No. 10char</p>
<p>ETA to clarify: I’ve never seen any such statistics, and I seriously doubt that colleges publish them. That would kill the mystique. :></p>
<p>Probably not.</p>
<p>At schools like Yale, for example, interviewers have said that some of their best/memorable interviewees were rejected. Students with so-so interviews get in, as well. So the statistic would be somewhat worthless. </p>
<p>Also, it is unfair to applicants who cannot have an interview. It’s almost like a slap in the face. “Students who have a interview are x% more likely to get in than those who don’t. Sorry kid from Rwanda.”</p>
<p>MIT is the only school of which I know that publishes them, but it still holds that they’re mostly meaningless.</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/misc/miscellaneous/lies_damned_lies_and_statistic.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/misc/miscellaneous/lies_damned_lies_and_statistic.shtml)
MollieB gives the numbers as 19% for interviewees (and those who had their interview waved) and 7% for non-interviewees (who did not have their interview waved). I’ve seen more recent numbers that gave it as maybe 4% for people who did not interview, but, like MollieB, I can’t remember where I saw them, though I know it was somewhere on the MIT Admissions site.
The reason she says on there that it’s mostly meaningless, as I’ve seen her explain it on here, since she’s a very helpful contributor, is that a lot of people who don’t interview do so for two reasons. The first is that they’re likely less interested, in which case their apps likely won’t be as good. The second is that they quite possibly have it less together, as in, they couldn’t get organized enough to call their EC or they didn’t think they were organized enough to have anything but an awful interview. These guys might have very last-minute applications or disorganized essays. But if you’re a run of the mill applicant who for some reason missed out on the interview, or even if you did forget to call, your application quite possibly still evinces great interest in the school and is well put together.</p>
<p>^Oh wow. I didn’t know Mollie had her own blogs:)</p>
<p>Not all schools keep track of who is offered an interview but rejects, though.</p>