<p>Some of these schools have very low acceptance rates, but you have to wonder how many of those applicants don't even have a shot and shouldn't even be considered part of the "potential-student" pool. Students that have no or very little work experience, low undergrad gpa's, low GMAT scores...etc. I'm sure a lot of qualified students who have a decent chance at getting admitted get turned away from applying when they see previous year's acceptance rates. I haven't found anything like this at any of the schools websites. Would be interesting to see in my opinion...</p>
<p>I think there's more self selection in grad school applications than undergrad so the numbers of "unqualified" applicants would be pretty low. Not to mention that at ~$200 per application fee, it can get pretty expensive applying to schools that you don't fit the bill for.</p>
<p>It would be interesting. However, I doubt there are that many applicants that realistically don't have a shot. It takes a lot of time and effort to fill out those applications and I'm sure most have spent a little bit of time computing their chances prior to applying.</p>
<p>Not to mention that the MBA applicant population is smaller than the undergraduate applicant numbers who apply to the top tier schools(graduate vs undergraduate schools) respectively. So that helps a lot! I can't imagine 22,000 applicants applying to each of the following schools:</p>
<p>HBS, Stanford GSB, Wharton MBA, etc.</p>
<p>That would be overkill!</p>