TUDENT ADMISSIONS AT UC BERKEL

BY
JAYANTH KUMAR
NIMMALAPALLI

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Description on Dataset:
The Data set contains the data of students applications to graduate school at
University of California Berkeley for six different departments A,B,C,D,E,F in 1973
classified by Admit(Admitted/Rejected) and sex(Male/Female)

Fields Available are:

Admit, Gender,

Departments
ADMIT Here we have 2 options weather the applicant got admitted or
Rejected
GENDER Here it shows either applicant is Male or Female
DEPTHere in University of Berkley grad school is having six departments
Such as A,B,C,D,E,F for which all the applicants applied for.

Questions on Dataset:
Given a new applicant male/female, can
we predict which department he/she has
to apply for a successful (or most
probably gets an) admission?
Was there any gender discrimination took
place in admission process in some/all
departments ?
Why some departments in university have
more male applicants while some other
departments have more female applicants

BAR GRAPHS
Number of Students Admitted for
Diff Depts
Commands Used in R
o a=apply(UCBAdmissions, c(1, 3),
sum)
o barplot((a[1,]),main="Student
Admissions at UCB for diff
depts",xlab="departments",ylab
="Number of students admitted")
o Type help(apply) in command

window and hit enter to know

why and how apply function is
used.
o Type help(barplot) in command
window and hit enter to know
why and how barplot is used.

Number of Students Rejected for

diff Depts

Commands Used in R
o a=apply(UCBAdmission
s, c(1, 3), sum)
o barplot((A[2,]),main="S
tudent Admissions at
UCB for diff
Depts",xlab=Diff
Depts",ylab="Number
of students Rejected")

Admitted Students classifi ed by

Gender

Commands used in R
o b=apply(UCBAdmissions,
c(1, 2), sum)
o barplot(b[1,],main=Admitt
ed Students Classified by
Gender",xlab="Gender",yl
ab="Number of students
admitted")

Rejected Students classifi ed by

Gender

Commands used in R
o

b=apply(UCBAdmission
s, c(1,2), sum)
o barplot((b[2,]),main="R
ejected Students
Classified by
Gender",xlab="gender"
,ylab="Number of
students Rejected")

Female Applicants at UCB for

Diff Dept
Commands used in
R
o c=apply(UCBAdmis
sions, c(2,3), sum)
o

barplot(c[2,],main=
"Female Applicants
at UCB for diff
Dept",xlab="Depts"
,ylab="Number of
Students")

Male Applicants at UCB for Diff

Dept

Commands used in R
o c=apply(UCBAdmissions,
c(2,3), sum)
o barplot(c[1,],main="Male
Applicants at UCB for diff
Dept",xlab="Depts",ylab
="Number of Students")

LIMITATIONS:
Exact Reason for Rejection?, to know: on what basic a

student is assessed.
How many students are applying for the first time and
how many times they have applied earlier ?, to know who
are the persistent applicants ?, so that a slight inclination
can be given to persistent applicants if on a tie.
How many transfer applicants are there?, to better treat
them separately as they have done some part of
education some where else.
From which locations maximum and minimum applications
are received ?, so that they can concentrate on the
minimum.
What is the age group interested more in a specific field of
study?, so that programs can be designed based on their
age group.