How competitive is your program?

[GottaGetIn]

I applied to 5 schools, but really only know the stats for 2 of them:

My first choice of schools had 280 applicants for 32 day seats.

My second choice had 188 qualified applicants, which they weeded down and gave interviews to 60 of them (yes, I was one of them, thank GOD) and they have 15 day seats open.

I'm really not too sure about the other 3.

[12breakfree]

My school has about 150 applications for about 50 slots...pretty good odds. However, it's a 3-college consorteum, so those in the immediate service area get priority over those outside, so this pretty much makes your chances of getting in zero if you don't live in this area.

I have learned, just from talking to other schools, that the number of applications they receive is usually a raw number, it doesn't necessarily mean that they were QUALIFIED applicants.

My school said they go through tons of applications....GPA too low, took Chemistry too long ago, never took 2 semesters of college-level biology (which is required for AP). So when they dwindle through the applications they have a much smaller number of applications that they put into their applicant pool.

That rules are harsh and somewhat unfair. They should be telling the applicants what they need to be doing in the meantime in order to get accepted. It's no games. Everyone desperates to get in.

[L&D_2b]

The school I got accepted to had about 300 applicants for 60 spots.

[medhead]

The school I'd like to attend also accepts around 10% of its total applicants.