70% acceptance rate a good sign?

denizen
Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:34:49 +0000

Of course, and yeah, they’re aimed a little high. I’m going for PhD in a bio field. Those are the rough average percentages I’ve figured based on my research. Let me give you some harder numbers too.

example 1/
A graduate group receives 100 applications and accepts 5-10 grad students.

example 2/
An umbrella program at a big university might receive 1200 applications, interviews 250, and accepts 200 students (spread across those 12 departments).

example 3/
An umbrella program receives 350 applications and accepts 35-50 applicants spread accross maybe 5 departments.

I will not tell you the names of the schools these are based on (do your own research! Lol) but I will tell you they’re all real numbers from program coordinators and more than once have I seen the same types of statistics for other programs.