the price of applying for grad school
Sep. 30th, 2007 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslSomeone suggested I just go ahead and apply to 25 schools. I disagree. For one thing, here's the price per application, assuming that I don't personalize the applications:
* application fee: typically between $50-$75
* official GRE score report: $15
* official Bucknell transcripts: $3
* official UvA transcripts: free (but isn't there a limit?)
* time cost: 2 hours
Cost per generic application: $68-$93 + 2 hours
Counter-argument: where I end up is a pretty big deal, and a couple thousand bucks is nothing in the big picture.
It is tempting, though, just for the sake of getting data. I don't believe there are good datasets of which schools applicants applied to and were accepted into, since the only people who have that information are the applicants themselves (although perhaps some undergrad programs track that about their graduating seniors?). In any case, I've just realized that a post like this one could bootstrap a dataset like that.
* application fee: typically between $50-$75
* official GRE score report: $15
* official Bucknell transcripts: $3
* official UvA transcripts: free (but isn't there a limit?)
* time cost: 2 hours
Cost per generic application: $68-$93 + 2 hours
Counter-argument: where I end up is a pretty big deal, and a couple thousand bucks is nothing in the big picture.
It is tempting, though, just for the sake of getting data. I don't believe there are good datasets of which schools applicants applied to and were accepted into, since the only people who have that information are the applicants themselves (although perhaps some undergrad programs track that about their graduating seniors?). In any case, I've just realized that a post like this one could bootstrap a dataset like that.