number of places versus number of applicants

[noni175]

Does anyone know how many places were given and how many applicants applied for the DclinPsy last year or the year before for each university ?

[ChrisCross]

Hi noni,

You can find this information on the clearing house for clinical psychology website: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/chpccp/numbers.html
Roughly 15% of applicants were successful in gaining a place this year. Across all course centres there were a total of 4,054 applicants for 614 places.

[noni175]

Thank you for your responce. However, I am interested to find out for each university the number of applicants and the number of positions. This is for me to calculate the rate of success (in%) for each university.

[ChrisCross]

If you go to the link I provided and click "places by course centre, " you will find the information you're looking for.

[maven]

Here you go, I made a ready-reckoner for you:

[ell]

Here you go, I made a ready-reckoner for you

Curiosity got the better of me. But I don't understand what the numbers mean. Surely it's not a case of 50% of applicants to Cov and Warwick got a place there?

[maven]

Its the odds, the ratio between applicants and places. So the worst odds are from the 500 applicants for the 10 places at Coventry and Warwick (50:1). The best odds are from Salomans where they have almost the same number of applicants for 34 places (15:1).

[maven]

I'm not sure there are any clear patterns, but if I were to try to draw out some trends the courses that have the lowest ratios of applicants to places seem to be those that are perceived as geographically far flung (East Anglia, Glasgow, Edinburgh, South Wales), the larger courses that are perceived as more reflective/psychodynamic (Salomans, Surrey?, UEL?) and small towns in more deprived catchment communities (Lancaster, Teeside, Trent). The north London, south west, midlands and "northern powerhouse" courses seem to be more popular.

Having a bit of a dig around in the data for the last 3 years shows that quite a few people are playing the odds, as some places swing up one year and down the next alternately. Big swings happened in: Bath, Exeter, Leicester, Oxford and Plymouth. Medium swings in Birmingham, Essex, Glasgow, IoPPN, Liverpool, Manchester, UCL, Royal Holloway, South Wales and Staffordshire.

Where odds were markedly the worst or best in the field for a course in a particular year, this was almost always followed by a swing in the numbers to correct that in the following year. Most courses either alternated from slightly better to slightly poorer odds as a result, or remained fairly steady, with most movement levelling out over longer periods of time.

[ell]

Its the odds, the ratio between applicants and places. So the worst odds are from the 500 applicants for the 10 places at Coventry and Warwick (50:1). The best odds are from Salomans where they have almost the same number of applicants for 34 places (15:1).

Ah, cool, thanks. On my phone it looked like full stops rather than colons. Makes more sense now!

[maven]

Its the odds, the ratio between applicants and places. So the worst odds are from the 500 applicants for the 10 places at Coventry and Warwick (50:1). The best odds are from Salomans where they have almost the same number of applicants for 34 places (15:1).

Ah, cool, thanks. On my phone it looked like full stops rather than colons. Makes more sense now!

They are decimal points Ell, its not you misreading on your phone. It is the number of applicants per place, to two decimal places. So for Coventry and Warwick it says 50.00 and for Salomans it says 15.70 as that is the number of applicants you are up against for a single place.

[ell]

Its the odds, the ratio between applicants and places. So the worst odds are from the 500 applicants for the 10 places at Coventry and Warwick (50:1). The best odds are from Salomans where they have almost the same number of applicants for 34 places (15:1).

Ah, cool, thanks. On my phone it looked like full stops rather than colons. Makes more sense now!

They are decimal points Ell, its not you misreading on your phone. It is the number of applicants per place, to two decimal places. So for Coventry and Warwick it says 50.00 and for Salomans it says 15.70 as that is the number of applicants you are up against for a single place.

Ah ha. Makes sense, thanks. Though 50 applicants per place for Cov and Warwick? Wow.

[clinlecturer]

Here you go, I made a ready-reckoner for you:

Interesting data. Of course it would be even more interesting to look at the number of applicants who met course minimum criteria and compare that to the number of places offered, as that would give a more representative statistic. In the past we have found that up to 20% of applicants did not meet our criteria.

[Randomswirls]

I wonder if part of the reason cov and Warwick is so high as they give feedback?

So they are a good bet if you have a ‘spare’ course so to speak?

[Speaker]

Here you go, I made a ready-reckoner for you:

Interesting data. Of course it would be even more interesting to look at the number of applicants who met course minimum criteria and compare that to the number of places offered, as that would give a more representative statistic. In the past we have found that up to 20% of applicants did not meet our criteria.

I completely agree with this, although this information isn't in the public domain. I've seen similar figures around 15-20% mentioned before so factored this into my calculations when I applied last year.

[RJParker]

I suspect that figure will vary significantly based on the specific programme. Our rate would be under 1% for example.