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Program Area   Acceptance Rates     Enrollment Rates
    Median Q1 Q3 N     Median Q1 Q3 N
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Doctoral Programs
                     
                       
Clinical   .06 .04 .14 160     .71 .57 1.00 159
Counseling   .09 .06 .17 61     .85 .69 1.00 58
School   .27 .17 .41 45     .75 .54 .89 45
                       
Cognitive   .22 .14 .34 71     .50 .36 1.00 70
Developmental   .17 .09 .31 85     .70 .33 1.00 79
Educational   .50 .33 .63 19     .75 .50 1.00 19
Experimental   .12 .00 .57 9     .76 .57 1.00 50
General/Social/Personality   .11 .07 .20 82     .50 .38 1.00 73
Industrial/Organizational   .14 .07 .29 41     .61 .41 .77 42
Physiological, Neurosciences, Biological,
    or Comparative
  .18 .08 .29 64     .60 .40 1.00 60
Psychometrics/Quantitative   .33 .13 .50 27     .60 .31 1.00 21
Other programs   .18 .12 .40 68     .75 .56 1.00 64
All programs   .13 .08 .24 285     .70 .53 .93 284
                       
Master's Programs                      
                       
Clinical   .41 .26 .61 69     .61 .46 .81 70
Counseling   .50 .28 .74 62     .77 .60 .91 60
School   .43 .24 .65 57     .78 .63 .94 56
                       
Cognitive   a a a 8     a a a 7
Developmental   .50 .40 .72 15     .56 .32 1.00 14
Educational   .54 .35 .73 12     .84 .44 1.00 12
Experimental   .53 .27 .70 34     .66 .45 .80 32
General/Social/Personality   .41 .25 .64 38     .71 .44 .90 38
Industrial/Organizational   .41 .18 .75 37     .64 .40 .89 36
Physiological, Neurosciences, Biological,
    or Comparative
  a a a 7     a a a 7
Psychometrics/Quantitative   a a a 8     a a a 5
Other programs   .51 .32 .75 55     .68 .50 .92 54
All programs   .45 .29 .65 210     .68 .50 .87 205

SOURCE: 1996-97 Insert to Graduate Study Survey, Research Office, APA. June 1998.

Note: Acceptance rates are ratios of acceptances to applicants, while enrollment rates are ratios of enrollments to acceptances.

a = Summary statistics are not reported when N of departments is less than 10.


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