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Predicting Graduate School Admission
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Predicting Graduate School AdmissionNICHOLAS GRABON ECE 539 12/13/13
DATA SOURCE Self Submitted Physics only Often incomplete ~500 total data points http://www.physicsgre.com/results.php?school=berkeley
DATA PREPARATION AND METHODS
Converted binaries to -1 or 1 Eliminated Data with no acceptance information Formatted GRE and grades Used svmtrain and svmclassify from class Radial basis function worked best Chose best rate out of 1000 trials Held out 100 points per trial
DATA ANALYSIS
Chose an average resume to investigate (my own) Varied this with respect to Physics GRE score Gender Year of Application School Applied to Residency GPA And Combinations of these
PGRE SCORE and SCHOOLClassifier Error=16%Green is accepted, blue is denied
YEAR and PGRE SCORE
PGRE and Gender1 corresponds to female; -1 to male
2009 2011 2013
2008
PGRE and Race2008
2009
1 denotes ethnic minority, -1 denotes ethnic majority
2011 2013
PGRE and Residence 0 indicates domestic; -1 is international
201320112009
2008
PGRE and GPA
2011 Total GPA 2011 Major GPA
Here I used Princeton to emphasize the difference
PGRE score and Verbal GRE Score
Conclusions
The PGRE seems to be the most important factor There is a small amount of randomness but essentially
predictable Gender, ethnicity, and residence matter General GPA matters more than the subject GPA but not as much
as PGRE The top block of schools have roughly the same criteria