SCEA vs National Match

LoremIpsum
Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:28:42 +0000

I didn’t know it was less than 5%, where are these numbers from?



A higher-end guess. Only about 10% of the finalists get matched during the first round. Back out the URMs and 1st generation students who are most likely to get placed, then back out those students placed with the other binding schools besides MIT/Yale/Princeton/Stanford, and you very likely have less than 5% of the candidates placed. I recall reading that Princeton took 14 applicants out of 2700 last year in the match round - about one-half of one percent.

I don’t think being a European citizen is a plus, but being a woman in physics or engineering would be – a woman in biology/pre-med would not be.