Analyzing the Effect of COVID-19 on College Admission Rates

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  Admission Rates for 18 Colleges Across the U.S.

In this report, we explore the impact of COVID-19 on the rates of college admission for 18 distinct colleges/universities across the United States by examining admissions rate data from both the 2019 (pre-pandemic) and 2020 application seasons. This report includes the 2019 and 2020 admission rates of Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Yale University, Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, Bowdoin College, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, Colby College, Barnard College, and Amherst College. This data can be found inside of the csv file located within the Github repository referenced above.

We used Python to generate a grouped bar graph that compares the admission rates from 2019 to the admission rates of 2020 for these 17 institutions. We utilized several Python libraries, including Matplotlib and numpy. The program reads in the specified csv file containing the admissions rate data, parses the data, configures the plot, and then formats the data on the plot accordingly.

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