Veyron wrote:?, the vast majority of applicants are accepted. The major limiting factor is peoples' wiliness to live in a hell-hole for 3 years, not difficulty getting into the program.northside wrote:...good luck joining the Peace Corps without an engineering or environmental science degree.
Unless daddy's got a fat check book. I used to date a guy who paid his way to a kick ass internship in the Peace Corps. Hillary loves those contributions.
The vast majority of applicants are most definitely not accepted. An excel document used to exist which provided the exact numbers for 2008/9/or 10. Roughly, it goes something like this: 70-80% of initial applicants are offered an interview, 70-80% of those interviewed are given a nomination, 80% of those nominated make it through medical, 90% pass the background check, 70%-80% of the applicants who make it through medical & backgrounds are extended an official invitation ("accepted"). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that leaves us with 20-30% of the original applicants, depending on the 70-80%s. It has become more competitive this past year, resulting in fewer applicants making it through each step.
Blah, blah, blah. What does this mean? It means that applying to the Peace Corps is like fighting a war of attrition, just stay in the fight and you might end up with a V. The application process is where the trouble starts with the Peace Corps.
It's not a thorough investigation into the quality of the individual, which results in many knuckleheads slipping through the cracks (I saw plenty during my time in PC). But, the "vast majority" don't make it to the end. Just throwing that out there.
