謝謝你的post。 我沒想到已有超過10位申請者私下問我這個問題。消息在台灣也傳得真快!你提的Clear Admit這方面interview數據是正確的。但希望以後不要在申請季節中公開場合透露這種訊息,因為畢竟很多申請者(包括我們的客戶)都還在苦苦的等待interview offer, 而且即使拿到interview的大多數也還在等待最後結果, 所以請大家體會所有申請者焦慮的心情!
至於R1結果會不會影響到R2的困難度,我已用email回覆很多人了。對不起因為我中文寫的/打的太慢也太爛,我就把那封email post在這裡,希望有回答到你的問題!
While regional and national representation is one factor that schools consider when making admissions decisions, this factor impacts large countries such as China and India far more than small countries like Taiwan; quite frankly, Taiwan is too small a country for adcoms to worry about over-representation from its applicants. This is why in one year, a top school like MIT accepted as many as nine Taiwanese applicants, but in another year it only accepted two. In contrast, the number of applicants from China accepted to each top school stays a lot more consistent from year to year because adcoms track numbers from a large country like China much more closely.
What this means is that, just because we are experiencing early success in R1 (a lot of hard work is yet to be done, as we still need to help our clients succeed in their interviews!) does NOT mean that this will jeopardize the chances of R2 applicants. As in years past, R2 is expected to be slightly more difficult than R1, but it is certainly not a night-and-day difference; it is a marginal difference. One exception I do need to point out is Columbia; regardless of the large number of interview invites received by Clear Admit clients, Columbia strongly favors early decision applicants over regular decision applicants in all demographic groups (including applicants from the U.S.).
祝申請順利!
Kevin
Clear Admit
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Kevin Chen
Senior Admissions Counselor, Clear Admit LLC (
http://www.clearadmit.com/)
Stanford Graduate School of Business, class of 2005
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, class of 2000
Princeton University, class of 1994
Previous work experiences: McKinsey; NBA; Reuters