First of all, I would like to thank
all 155 fellow applicants who have taken part of this survey. The
following is a brief summary of the results.
Here is a table (taken straight
from the SurveyMonkey.com) showing the number of applicants who applied
to each of the schools which the survey covered:
 |
|
Response Percent |
Response Total |
|
|
|
Anderson |
|
 |
11% |
17 |
|
|
|
Chicago |
|
|
30.3% |
47 |
|
|
|
Columbia |
|
|
36.8% |
57 |
|
|
|
Cornell |
|
|
12.9% |
20 |
|
|
|
Darden |
|
|
15.5% |
24 |
|
|
|
Fuqua |
|
|
14.8% |
23 |
|
|
|
Haas |
|
|
16.1% |
25 |
|
|
|
Harvard |
|
|
60.6% |
94 |
|
|
|
Insead |
|
|
10.3% |
16 |
|
|
|
Kellogg |
|
|
37.4% |
58 |
|
|
|
LBS |
|
|
7.1% |
11 |
|
|
|
Michigan |
|
|
13.5% |
21 |
|
|
|
MIT-Sloan |
|
|
28.4% |
44 |
|
|
|
Stanford |
|
|
35.5% |
55 |
|
|
|
Stern |
|
|
10.3% |
16 |
|
|
|
Tuck |
|
|
21.3% |
33 |
|
|
|
Wharton |
|
|
66.5% |
103 |
|
|
|
Yale |
|
|
9.7% |
15 |
|
Total Respondents |
155 |
|
(skipped this question) |
0 |
As you can see, we have a fairly good sample of applicants and the
numbers correlate quite well to the total number of applications that
those schools receive each year. The numbers of Insead and LBS are
probably lower than expected (which I guess is because this survey was
advertised on BW and s2s forums and they are probably not as popular in
Europe as they are in the US) and Wharton's number is slightly
higher than expected (probably because one of the two forums - s2s - is
almost exclusively visited by Wharton applicants). But the numbers of
other schools seem pretty good.
The average applicant applies to
4.38 schools.
Here are brief mini-reports for my target schools:
Columbia:
Number of applicants in our survey who target Columbia: 57
Average # of schools Columbia applicant applies to: 5.46
Among those 57 applicants,
|
81% |
apply to |
Wharton |
|
72% |
apply to |
Harvard |
|
44% |
apply to |
Chicago |
|
42% |
apply to |
Kellogg |
|
40% |
apply to |
Sloan |
|
37% |
apply to |
Stanford |
|
<25% |
apply to |
each other
school |
Harvard:
Number of applicants in our survey who target Harvard: 94
Average # of schools Harvard applicant applies to: 5.05
Among those 94 applicants,
|
82% |
apply to |
Wharton |
|
49% |
apply to |
Stanford |
|
46% |
apply to |
Kellogg |
|
44% |
apply to |
Columbia |
|
35% |
apply to |
Sloan |
|
34% |
apply to |
Chicago |
|
<25% |
apply to |
each other
school |
Kellogg:
Number of applicants in our survey who target Kellogg: 58
Average # of schools Kellogg applicant applies to: 5.78
Among those 58 applicants,
|
76% |
apply to |
Wharton |
|
74% |
apply to |
Harvard |
|
48% |
apply to |
Chicago |
|
45% |
apply to |
Stanford |
|
41% |
apply to |
Columbia |
|
36% |
apply to |
Sloan |
|
26% |
apply to |
Tuck |
|
<25% |
apply to |
each other
school |
Sloan:
Number of applicants in our survey who target Sloan: 44
Average # of schools Sloan applicant applies to: 6.16
Among those 44 applicants,
|
80% |
apply to |
Wharton |
|
75% |
apply to |
Harvard |
|
52% |
apply to |
Columbia |
|
52% |
apply to |
Stanford |
|
48% |
apply to |
Kellogg |
|
36% |
apply to |
Chicago |
|
27% |
apply to |
Haas |
|
25% |
apply to |
Tuck |
|
<25% |
apply to |
each other
school |
Stanford:
Number of applicants in our survey who target Stanford: 55
Average # of schools Stanford applicant applies to: 5.4
Among those 55 applicants,
|
85% |
apply to |
Wharton |
|
84% |
apply to |
Harvard |
|
47% |
apply to |
Kellogg |
|
42% |
apply to |
Sloan |
|
38% |
apply to |
Columbia |
|
27% |
apply to |
Haas |
|
<25% |
apply to |
each other
school |
Tuck:
Number of applicants in our survey who target Tuck: 33
Average # of schools Tuck applicant applies to: 5.45
Among those 33 applicants,
|
67% |
apply to |
Wharton |
|
56% |
apply to |
Harvard |
|
45% |
apply to |
Kellogg |
|
36% |
apply to |
Columbia |
|
33% |
apply to |
Darden |
|
33% |
apply to |
Sloan |
|
33% |
apply to |
Stanford |
|
27% |
apply to |
Fuqua |
|
<25% |
apply to |
each other
school |
Wharton:
Number of applicants in our survey who target Wharton: 103
Average # of schools Wharton applicant applies to: 4.99
Among those 103 applicants,
|
75% |
apply to |
Harvard |
|
46% |
apply to |
Stanford |
|
45% |
apply to |
Columbia |
|
43% |
apply to |
Kellogg |
|
34% |
apply to |
Sloan |
|
33% |
apply to |
Chicago |
|
<25% |
apply to |
each other
school |
Two notes to be considered:
1. In the mini-reports above, the
average number of schools each applicant applies to is actually the
average number of schools among the 18 B-Schools that were covered in
the survey. Since some applicants might have applied to other schools
that were not part of the survey, the "true" averages are probably
slightly higher than the numbers reported above. This difference might
be quite significant for some schools and negligible for others.
2. I guess LBS and especially
Insead could have had high numbers in the mini-reports above if more
European applicants were to respond to this survey. Since more Wharton
applicants have taken the survey than expected, Wharton's numbers in the
mini-reports might be slightly higher than in reality. However, the
difference shouldn't be large and judging by the number of applications
Wharton gets each year, the "true" numbers for Wharton are highly
unlikely to be more than 10-15 percentage points below the numbers
reported above. The numbers for other B-School pairs probably didn't
change much (if at all) by the slight sample bias.
An Excel file which contains all
the results of this survey can be downloaded here.
Fill free to run whatever analysis you want using the data in the file
and if you come across an interesting observation about applying
patterns, please share it with us on the BW or s2s forums.
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