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Why GyanDhan is Launching the Admission Prediction Tool?

Why GyanDhan is Launching the Admission Prediction Tool?

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GyanDhan's Admit Predict Tool will help students to shortlist colleges as per their profile with ease and accuracy so that they can make their master list of colleges to apply in the most targeted manner.

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Jainesh Sinha
Updated on:  07 Nov 2023  | Reviewed By:  Aman  | 8.12K | 7  min read

After completing his undergrad from one of the premier institutes in India, Jayant wanted to pursue higher studies in the US. He scored well in GRE, and he started his journey of looking for colleges who him best might accept his application. As the average time to complete an application for Top MS program in US is quite high, so it became important for him to shortlist the right colleges, as he wanted to put his best foot forward in all his applications.

 

"Someone must have surely solved this problem" he thought. After spending a whole day on one of the man's greatest inventions (saying internet is too mainstream) he was sure of 4 things:

  1. list items Every admit predictor/ profile evaluator in the market classified colleges as Safe/Ambitious/Moderate. Since all the colleges falling in the same bucket (i.e. Safe/Ambitious/Moderate) are indistinguishable from each other, and several colleges fall in each of these buckets, hence it becomes really tough to make your list of 8-10 target colleges.
  2. list items It seemed that all profile evaluators used average admit GRE scores for a given college to categorise it.
  3. list items Most of the profile evaluators are not specialized for Indian students, and hence, give average results for all students globally.
  4. list items No one solely relies on Profile evaluators – Everyone still uses forums, social media to get additional info before deciding their colleges shortlist.


Since Jayant was the Tech Lead at GyanDhan then, our team brainstormed as to how we could improve the status quo. And this is how our admit predictor was born.

We firmly believe that our Admit Predictor will significantly help students with their application process. Our belief stems from the following:

  1. list items Our Admit Predictor is granular – we go beyond Safe/Ambitious/Moderate categorization by providing the admit probability for each college.
  2. list items Every profile is computed using insights from thousands of historical data points.
  3. list items Our percentile chart shows how you rank amongst the past successful applicants - so you can know whether you’re in the top 10% of the applicants to ASU MS in CS or in the top 30%!

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Data Collection

Several students contributed to this initiative by sharing their info through surveys. In total, we reached out to 15,000 applicants in the GyanDhan community. Many students gave us access to Google spreadsheets, where past students had voluntarily entered their admit-related information.

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Data Cleaning and EDA

After going through the dirty work of cleaning data, we normalized the continuous variables (GRE Score, CGPA, # of publications) and standardized the discrete variables (College Name, Branch, Work ex.)

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Features Used

  1. list items Acceptance ratio of top US colleges for Indian Students (computed from Analysis, ASEE)
  2. list items Profile of student in Undergrad college : Indian College Name Branch CGPA / Percentage Rank of the student in the class (computed from Analysis)
  3. list items Indian College Name
  4. list items Branch
  5. list items CGPA / Percentage
  6. list items Rank of the student in the class (computed from Analysis)
  7. list items Test scores: GRE score (Quant, Verbal, AWA) TOEFL/ IELTS
  8. list items GRE score (Quant, Verbal, AWA)
  9. list items TOEFL/ IELTS
  10. list items Target graduate course and college US college name Branch Semester type ( Fall/ Spring)
  11. list items US college name
  12. list items Branch
  13. list items Semester type ( Fall/ Spring)
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Model Building

We tried different Machine learning models: logistic regression, SVM, random forest, and compared their results. After training our model and evaluating it on different test datasets, we concluded that a Hybrid Model (of Logistic regression and Random Forest) was outperforming the others. This is the model that runs in the background when you evaluate your profile on GyanDhan’s Admit Predictor.

 

 

FAQs:

 

Q. Why is work experience not being taken into account despite the fact that it matters a lot?

Ans. As mentioned in our previous post about the importance of work experience, relevant work experience in the field you are applying increases your chances of getting admission. However, we have not been able to find reliable data on relevant work experience yet. We’re on the look-out and hope to add this feature to our model soon.

Q. Why are you are not taking research publications into account?

Ans. Unfortunately, we could not find enough data to map the correlation between admission and research publications. We are still trying to gather data to include publications in our admit model.

Q. Other sites incorporate the strength of SOP and LOR’s in their profile evaluators. Why are you not including them?

Ans. Many profiling tools evaluate the strength of the SOP and LOR’s but we could not find concrete data on it. This is because the university officials and even the students are reluctant to share their SOPs with anyone hence, gradation of these SOPs and LORs seems like a far-fetched idea. Our admit predictor model relies on hard facts and figures to give an honest evaluation. Hence, we took the decision not to include the strength of SOP and LORs in our profile evaluator. However, You can help us to include this feature into our model: contribute your SOP.

Happy shortlisting!

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