Graduate admissions at MIT & comparison-based rank aggregation : a case study
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871033929-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Szeto, Katherine Carbognin
Advisor(s)
Devavrat Shah, Gregory Wornell and Frans Kaashoek.
Alternative Title
Graduate admissions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and comparison-based rank aggregation
Date Issued
2013
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Admission to the Graduate program in EECS at MIT is done via an all-electronic system. Applicants submit materials through a web interface and faculty "reviewers" read the applications and make notes via a different interface. Among other comments, reviewers provide a numerical score between 1 and 4 to each application. Admissions decisions are reached via a lengthy process involving discussion among faculty, which is often guided by the numerical scores of the applications. Past data show the scores of the applicants still under consideration during the final stages of the process are almost all 4's. Because of this uniformity, the scores do not provide much resolution into the differences in quality of the applications, and are therefore not as helpful as they could be in guiding admissions decisions. In this work, we present the use of an additional scoring system that is based on pairwise comparisons between applicants made by faculty reviewers. We present the design we created for this scheme and the code written to implement it, and analyze the data we obtained when the code went live during the 2012-2013 admissions cycle.
Description
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2013.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-44).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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