What does the “rank” mean?
Rank is a confidence indicator based upon matches with your input and information in the database. Matches are ordered by rank, the more likely matches will have a lower numbered rank, for example: • A rank of 1 would indicate that a match was found. In this case, the Match Found screen will display. • A rank of 2 or higher indicates some of the information submitted did not fully match the information in the database. • Equally ranked results indicate insufficient address information to identify the better match. Additional address information may improve your results.
This is an attempt to consolidate all important quantitative properties of every MBA applicant. Frankly saying it doesn’t mean a thing because it is widely accepted that at least in the highly selective schools qualitative side such as essays and recommendations play the most important role. However, having a single rank reflecting overall quantitative side of an application might be useful. In particular if we will try to correlate it with the actual results of the applications, ie whether those with high ranks succeed getting into the schools they desired. It is essential to understand that the ranking system is not to find who of us is the best, not at all. The system is an attempt to predict success in the application process (in respect of schools attempted) and should be viewed as such. All admission offiers use some sort of the ranking system in their work. We actually have no idea about their algorithms but we know that they are logical and use quantitative data (at least for s
