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Originally Posted by KDCat
Sure. But Indiana is only placing about 60% of the women who start the process, and IU is dropping a bunch of them after pref. University of Illinois places around 97% of the women who go all the way through and don't drop out. There was a really great webpage that listed how many women were dropped at U of I, but the school deleted it. Very few women at University of Illinois are dropped completely. Quite a few quit because they don't like their options, though, but that is on them.
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Recruitment at IU is absolutely brutal and I'm not defending it, but the statistician in me is really cringing at this. I've seen a few people in this thread tossing around similar numbers but it's comparing apples to oranges with the statistics. IU's placement rate was 64% in 2013, which is undeniably low, but it is the percentage of registered women who received bids. That includes the women who were dropped for grades, those who were released before preference and the women who dropped out. If you calculate U of I placement in the same way, their placement rate is about 71%. At Miami of Ohio, 70% of the women registered received bids in 2013.
The comparable statistic to the 97% figure for U of I is 88% for IU (at least for 2013, I don't know how it will shake out this year.) Of the 1160 women who attended preference at IU, 1025 received bids. Now I'm of the opinion that if you go all the way through the process and maximize your options you should get a bid (barring exceptional circumstances) so I think 88% is still too low of a placement rate at that point in the process. But that's the figure we should be comparing to the argument that 95% or more of the women at other schools are placed. (For additional comparison for fellow statistics geeks - at Miami of Ohio the comparable placement rate is 92% and at Alabama a very impressive 99.5% of the women who attended preference received bids in 2012!)