Is your Statement Purposeless? Predicting Computer Science Graduation Admission Acceptance based on Statement Of Purpose

We present a quantitative, data-driven machine learning approach to mitigate the problem of unpredictability of Computer Science Graduate School Admissions. In this paper, we discuss the possibility of a system which may help prospective applicants evaluate their Statement of Purpose (SOP) based on our system output. We, then, identify feature sets which can be used to train a predictive model. We train a model over fifty manually verified SOPs for which it uses an SVM classifier and achieves the highest accuracy of 92% with 10-fold cross-validation. We also perform experiments to establish that Word Embedding based features and Document Similarity-based features outperform other identified feature combinations. We plan to deploy our application as a web service and release it as a FOSS service.

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