brewdata (version 0.4)

parseResults: Function to Convert "Decision and Date" String to Data

Description

parseResults attempts to extract self-reported statistics listed from the Grad Cafe "Decision and Date" text field. The parsing rules below were generated based on test runs using the following parameters in the brewdata method: years=c(2015,2014), term="F", degree="phd", focus="statistics"

End-users should not need to interact directly with this function, but improving the rules might improve the fidelity of the brewdata method results.

Usage

parseResults( result )

Arguments

result

result is a "Decision and Date" string from the Grad Cafe.

Value

parseResults returns a data frame with the following fields.

gpa

is the self-reported grade point average.

gre_v

is the self-reported GRE verbal section score

gre_q

is the self-reported GRE quantitative section score

gre_aw

is the self-reported GRE analytical writing score

month

is the month of the date that an admission decision was made--not the date an applicant uploaded the result to the Grad Cafe.

day

is the day of the date that an admission decision was made--not the date an applicant uploaded the result to the Grad Cafe.

year

is the day of the date that an admission decision was made--not the date an applicant uploaded the result to the Grad Cafe.

decision

denotes a university's decision on an application. Possible decisions are accepted ('A'), wait listed ('W'), rejected ('R'), interview ('I') or other ('O').

See Also

findScorePercentile, brewdata, parseSchools, translateScore, getGradCafeData, getMaxPages

Examples

#"Decision and Date" string parsing
x = "Accepted via E-mail on 16 Jan 2015 UG GPA: 4.00GRE General (V/Q/W): 167/170/4.00GRE "
parseResults(x)