Why does nobody spill out who has offers from which schools? Once the offers are made they are anyway known by competing schools (in fact, the candidates themselves are most likely telling other schools to trigger more action). Instead, people on this board, which is a job market rumor board, would be interested in getting a sense for where the market is going and have no access to those offered candidates unless they are hiring them too. So why not letting us know? This is the whole reason why this board existsSuppose you had information about every offer and who held it. What would you do? Spend time trying to solve the problem of how many declines would have to come before you might get one?
No, but it can definitely help with the clearing. In my year I had an offer from a certain school and somebody I knew was nr.2. It turned out he had an offer from a place I preferred and I was nr.2 there. We both declined the original offers and landed at our favourite places.
That’s a cute story. We are hiring this year and half of candidates are so (stupidly) close to the vest with any and all information about their situations, it’s impossible to have situations like these.