vesperlynd wrote:
Riley,
I think you need to go back through the profiles again. Here are some results I get for domestic males for those applying to top 20 (approximately) schools, in traditional physics programs:
2008:
770: Accepted: Washington, Minnesota, Maryland; Rejected: Michigan
790: Accepted: Stanford, Penn; Rejected MIT, Chicago, Cornell, Berkeley, Harvard
770: Accepted: UIUC, Penn State
790: Accepted: Washington, NYU, Michigan; Rejected: Chicago, Caltech, MIT, Princeton
700: Accepted: Colorado, Michigan, Maryland, Yale; Rejected: MIT, Harvard, Princeton
770: Accepted: MIT, Harvard, Chicago, Yale, MSU, Michigan, Washington; Rejected: Berkeley, Stanford
790: Accepted: Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA; Rejected: UCSB, Chicago, MIT, Caltech
760: Accepted: Cornell, UT-Austin; Rejected: Harvard, MIT, Princeton, UCSB
780: Accepted: Stanford, Maryland, Caltech, Cornell, UIUC; Rejected: Chicago
2009:
75%: Accepted: Harvard, Washington, Boulder, Berkeley; Rejected: UIUC, MIT, Stanford\
69%: Accepted: Cornell, Penn, Michigan, Maryland, JHU; Rejected: UIUC, Colorado
71%: Accepted: UCLA, UCSD, UT-Austin; Rejected: Chicago, UCSB, Princeton, Caltech, Penn, Michigan
750: Accepted: UCSB, UCLA; Rejected: JHU, NYU, Columbia
820: Accepted: UCSD, UT-Austin; Rejected: Princeton, UCLA
63%: Accepted: Cornell; Rejected: Stanford, Berkeley
2010:
79%: Accepted: Cornell, UIUC, Chicago, UCSD; Rejected: Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, UCSB
72%: Accepted: UT-Austin, Washington, UCSD, UCSB
65%: Accepted: UCSB
790: Accepted: UCSB; Rejected: Princeton, Berkeley, Maryland, UIUC
68%: Accepted: Colorado, Maryland, UIUC, Michigan; Rejected: MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton, UCSB, Stanford
820: Accepted: MIT, UCLA, UCSD, Wisconsin; Waitlisted: Princeton (Plasma)
800: Accepted: Cornell, Minnesota, Michigan; Rejected: Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Chicago, Berkeley, Columbia, Caltech, UCSB
60%: Accepted: UCSB, UIUC; Rejected: Colorado, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Washington, Michigan
79%: Accepted: UIUC, Maryland, Michigan, UT-Austin; Rejected: Chicago, Cornell, Stanford
800: Accepted: UCLA, Caltech, UCSB, Stanford, Berkeley; Rejected: Princeton, Harvard
66%: Accepted: Michigan, Washington, UT-Austin; Rejected: Berkeley, UIUC, Chicago, Colorado, Cornell, Princeton
Here are some results for domestic women:
68%: Accepted: Cornell, Berkeley, UCSB, Yale, UCLA, Washington
73%: Accepted: Berkeley, Columbia, Penn, Washington; Rejected: Chicago, Harvard
54%: Accepted: Cornell, Boston, JHU; Rejected: Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Michigan, Chicago, Yale, Columbia
74%: Accepted: Stanford, Maryland, UCSB, Berkeley, Colorado, UIUC, Yale, Michigan; Waitlisted: Harvard; Rejected: MIT
59%: Accepted: Washington, Michigan, Colorado; Rejected: Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Princeton
It's obvious looking at this that the only schools for which the GRE a deal-breaker are Princeton and MIT.
For astronomy programs, as long as you have excellent research and recs from known profs, you can get accepted to top schools with 40-50%.
In order to make my ranges, I did not make the bottom of the blue the lowest accepted person. I simply made cuts based on the amount of rejections / acceptances in certain areas. For example, I am well aware of a person with a 770 getting accepted to MIT/Harvard etc, however the majority of the scores at this level were rejected. I have the statistics for all of this stuff if you would like to see it, I will upload the file for those who want it. The way I have sorted these is so people can realistically look at their profiles. It does not mean that if someone was in the red area, they would not get accepted. It basically means very few people are accepted in this range and all of them have a phenomenal application.
-Riley
