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

In brewdata: Extracting Usable Data from the Grad Cafe Results Search

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)

brewdata documentation built on May 29, 2017, 4:28 p.m.