<p>Is it just me or are the student statistics on Peterson's a little inflated? Harvard's School of Education is listed as having a 50% acceptance rate to their Ed.M program: </p>
<p>Harvard</a> University, Graduate School of Education - Program Virtual Campus </p>
<p>Whereas another source put this figure at a much lower 13%. </p>
<p>Harvard</a> University Admission- College admissions- Let college admissions offices find you today.</p>
<p>Who should I believe?</p>
<p>This site does seem weird. </p>
<p>Acceptance for Stanford for Electrical Engineering is</a> 37%.</p>
<p>While acceptance to Johns Hopkins for EE is</a> 13%.</p>
<p>What the hell? I need to get into JHU and while I find this disturbing, I also find it hard to believe... Unless maybe more long-shots apply to JHU than would dare to apply to Stanford??</p>
<p>Who says this applyingtoschool.com web site is correct? I think petersons.com is more accurate...could be wrong though. It doesn't say how often they update them.</p>
<p>I heard Harvard's Education School was pretty easy to get into...the most easiest out of them all.</p>
<p>actually Harvard Divinity is:
I know the dean personally and he told me that their acceptance rates hover around 60%. Of course- the application requirements for HDS are very non standard so those who do apply already fit the typical student profile. </p>
<p>I think a 50% acceptance rate is great mind you- I just find it hard to beleive! lol</p>
<p>Keep in mind that not everyone who gets in goes, so even with a 50% acceptance rate, the size of the entering class (the statistic we're used to hearing in marketing phrases such as "we get X applicants for Y spots") is much smaller. That's why it may seem weird - we're used to hearing that a program with 10 spots gets 120 applicants, so we mentally calculate the acceptance rate as under 10%, though it may be much larger. I don't think Peterson's is entirely inaccurate, though.</p>