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Post by anon on Feb 13, 2011 20:55:34 GMT -5
Anyone have a link to information about past ASA Annual Meeting acceptance rates? Do they track this information?
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Post by socslac on Feb 13, 2011 22:48:39 GMT -5
Do you mean for the regular sessions or for ASA as a whole? Other than potential cases of lost or misplaced submissions (i.e. papers that should have been forwarded to roundtables but didn't) I don't know of anybody who has ever gotten completely rejected by ASA if they had their paper forwarded to roundtables.
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Post by ddddd on Feb 14, 2011 8:42:20 GMT -5
In the past, the ASA might have had a higher rejection rate. Recently, however, given the sheer number of undergraduate senior theses I've seen presented and of sessions with 5 papers, I think they are pretty much letting everyone in.
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Post by round tables on Feb 14, 2011 8:49:35 GMT -5
I organized the roundtables for a section a few years ago and the instructions I got were "accept all papers if they have something to do with X" (X being the topic of that section). I think that's the case for many sections. So if you have your paper forwarded to the roundtables you ought to get in.
As a side note, I couldn't believe some of the crap people submit. Does no one follow the rules? There were just abstracts and papers that were 90 pages long, etc. It was ridiculous.
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Post by lengthy on Feb 14, 2011 9:02:04 GMT -5
I agree that the acceptance rate is really high. I was involved in organizing roundtables a couple of years ago, and everything relevant forwarded to us was accepted. About following the rules, most people don't (and shouldn't) bother sticking to ASA's silly page limits. I thought the people who submitted abstracts usually went to the poster session's, though I may be wrong. There was a helpful discussion on Scatterplot about some of this last year: scatter.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/the-twenty-page-limit/ |
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Post by tretre on Feb 14, 2011 10:20:55 GMT -5
I would also like to add that while every single paper might end up being accepted at roundtables, I've found that roundtables generally provide far better feedback about works in progress than actual presentations.
Regular sessions always have someone going far beyond the 15 minute limit and at least recently they've been really packing them with papers, leading to little or no time for actual discussion.
Roundtables, being more specific, invite a more selected crowd, and being smaller, people feel more comfortable making more elaborate/complex suggestions.
Granted, all of this only applies if someone is actually interested in feedback.
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Post by Dunno on Feb 15, 2011 19:58:16 GMT -5
I'm a roundtable organizer this year and I'm rejecting what I see as unacceptable. No offense.
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Post by hmmmmm on Feb 16, 2011 2:48:46 GMT -5
"About following the rules, most people don't (and shouldn't) bother sticking to ASA's silly page limits. I thought the people who submitted abstracts usually went to the poster session's, though I may be wrong. There was a helpful discussion on Scatterplot about some of this last year: scatter.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/the-twenty-page-limit/" Well, darn. I wish I had read that before I chopped up my paper to fit their silly limit. I've always regretted being a good girl. |
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Post by dunno2 on Feb 16, 2011 11:22:53 GMT -5
I think the page limit is very reasonable, and when I am an organizer (which I have been twice, but not this year) I don't consider papers that go way over the limit. If you can't get it down to 20 pages, it shouldn't be a conference presentation. Period.
Acceptances are already coming out. I got my emailed acceptance yesterday. And I am happy not to end up on a roundtable. Talking in a big room where a bunch of others are also talking at other tables has never been a great experience for me.
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Post by Huh on Feb 16, 2011 12:51:52 GMT -5
How do you access the submission module to see the status of your paper? I swear in past years I was able to do this, but this year I can't find the link.
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Post by here on Feb 16, 2011 14:02:45 GMT -5
Log in to ASA and click on "Access the 2011 Session Organizer Module"
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Post by Huh on Feb 16, 2011 14:35:14 GMT -5
Thanks! Wow, that was not at all intuitive. I assumed that the "session organizer module" was for session organizers.
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Post by curiousphd on Mar 15, 2011 17:46:25 GMT -5
Is there a meaningful difference in prestige between acceptance to a regular session and acceptance to a section session?
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Post by TB on Mar 15, 2011 19:05:21 GMT -5
Is there a meaningful difference in prestige between acceptance to a regular session and acceptance to a section session? I don't think so. Sessions are often set up around specific themes, so if one's paper doesn't fit in, it isn't always a matter of its quality. Quality can matter more for roundtables - some rt organizers are strict on quality of the papers they receive. But overall, no one is going to look at your CV and know at what type of session you presented. |
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Post by rounders on Mar 16, 2011 7:39:45 GMT -5
I'm also a roundtable organizer. I reject papers that are too long and don't have a concise point. This is for the benefit of the people who will listen to the paper being presented (or won't have to listen). If it is 50 pages and rambling, it is not ready for presentation.
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