Percentage of People who Get IN After Interviews

[jaxi_cab]

So I'm just wondering if anyone knows about how many people get in after they're interviewed for a school?

How many do they invite and how many of those are admitted. 

 

Goes for smaller schools, big R1 schools, and mid size schools. Anyone have any info? Guesses?

 

 

 

 

Applied 16

Interviewed 2

Admitted

Rejected

[w8inggame]

I've gone to two so far, and from what I gather it varies.

 

At NYU, 47 were attending the interviews, not including phone interviews. We were told 25 would be offered admissions for 12 real seats.

 

At Stony Brook, the admitted class the year before was around the same as the number of people invited for interview. However interviews don't seem completely necessary for admittance, so who knows.

[EnzymeKinetics]

I think most R1 schools will have a historical average yield rate around 50% (the amount of extended admission offers accepted). So if you interview with a cohort of 20 and you later find out they have 10 real spots, then you would all stand a good chance of getting an admission offer. Those offers might not all go out at once if they don't want to overshoot the number of open spots they have, and in that case they will make use of a waitlist while they see if their top 10 choices accept or not. 

[dendy]

what does that mean? they extended more offers than spots available?

They know not every person offered admission will accept. Programs keep track of acceptance rates over many years and use it to determine how many to offers to make if they want to fill a certain number of spaces. Occasionally way more people accept than they were expecting but I've never heard of an offer being rescinded.

[VBD]

They know not every person offered admission will accept. Programs keep track of acceptance rates over many years and use it to determine how many to offers to make if they want to fill a certain number of spaces. Occasionally way more people accept than they were expecting but I've never heard of an offer being rescinded.

If this happens, then sometimes they just search more stringently the next year and offer either less positions or less funding. It is definitely a common practice to offer more though because that situation (of many people accepting) is rare and won't fit their current trend. 

 

I went to an interview last year and out of 20, they only accepted 12, expecting only 6. So I'd say it could be 50% or even higher depending on the program/school. If you are truly curious, you can ask students. I tend to not ask Professors (talk only research with them) or the academic/admissions people so I don't look too pushy. Current students went through this exact process and will tell it like it is. 

[ACM88]

I think it can be school or program specific, but your chances of admittance have increased tremendously if you get an interview. For example, I know that for the Stanford Biosciences, only roughly 10-15% of all applicants are admitted but between 60-70% of interviewed applicants are admitted. The odds heavily tilt in your favor if you can manage an interview and prove that: 1. You know what you're talking about, and 2. You're not crazy.