<p>Brown students are very smart and qualified, and of course there are a handful (about 5% of the student body there) who turned down a chance to go to Harvard, Yale or Princeton. </p>
<p>One measure of how qualified Brown students are is on the site I've posted below. Given that about the same percentage of Brown alumni apply to the top graduate schools as do HYP alumni, I think this is a valid comparison. But you're asking about endowments, resources and faculty support. On that measure, Brown lags very far behind HYP.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.collegejournal.com/special/top50feeder.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegejournal.com/special/top50feeder.pdf</a></p>
<p>There is a significant weakness to the study though. The list of elite graduate and professional schools was not comprehensive, and some were not ranked as high as other graduate problems not included in the study. Let's look at HYS law schools, were the real power elite is produced in this country. Brown is with the top five of alma maters represented at Stanford, and within the top seven at Harvard and Yale. That's impressive. Similar findings can be had for med schools, throwing Penn med into the mix.</p>
<p>I wouldn't say Brown is necessarily top seven, but top 20 is fair.</p>
<p>See attached study</p>
<p>Undergraduate origins (per capita volume) of students admitted to
distinguished law schools (i.e. the top 3 law schools in USNWR)</p>
<p>1 Yale</p>
<p>2 Harvard</p>
<p>3 Amherst</p>
<p>4 Princeton</p>
<p>5 Stanford</p>
<p>6 Dartmouth</p>
<p>7 Williams</p>
<p>8 Duke</p>
<p>9 Swarthmore</p>
<p>10 Chicago</p>
<p>11 Claremont McKenna</p>
<p>12 St. John's (Annapolis)</p>
<p>13 Columbia</p>
<p>14 Brown</p>
<p>15 Pomona</p>
<p>16 Georgetown</p>
<p>17 Rice</p>
<p>18 Wellesley</p>
<p>19 Yeshiva</p>
<p>20 Haverford</p>
<p>Source: Gary Glen Price, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, (01 July 1999)</p>
<p>It is clear posterX has some issue with Brown. It is rather easy to read between "his" lines. I have just met a bunch of people at Dimensions in Dartmouth that have been accepted to Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia Yale and (gasp! ) were rejected from Brown. That says it all and I wont speculate about what may have happened to poster X....</p>
<p>Harvard considers the 8 ivies plus MIT and Stanford... "sister schools". Enough said.</p>
<p>As far as quoting obscure 20th century statements from the U of Wisconsin.... I am at a loss for words. Even the USNWR rankings annually are widely considered as poorly accurate and not scientific. </p>
<p>I Agree with dcircle. Now, I am going to play and old classic song my parents love....The Beatles and.......let it be, let it be, let it be.. oh let it be......</p>
<p>Hahaha... It somehow reminds me of that episode of Colbert Report where he's like finding ONE scientific paper that refute global warming to disprove its existence. Similarly, it seems that someone is digging through every single paper to sing praises and prove that Yale is the best.</p>
<p>I'm not trying to prove anything, I'm just responding to the point the poster above me had made regarding law school placement.</p>
<p>PosterX, in 2002 the feeder colleges with the greatest representations at Yale Law School, the most selective law school in the nation was:
1)Harvard-85
2)Yale-66
3)Princeton-26
4)Berkeley-21
5)Stanford-19
6)Brown-18
Undergraduate schools representated at Harvard Law, 2006-7
1)Harvard-241
2)Yale-113
3)Stanford-79
4)Penn-57
5)Princeton-54
6)Brown-48
7)Berkeley-48
I saw the figures for Stanford an admissions cycle ago, and Brown had as many students at Stanford Law for the incoming that cycle as Stanford had.</p>
<p>On a per capita basis (i.e., my list), many schools do better. Berkeley may be tops on your list because it is enormous, but when you adjust for the number of graduates or number of people applying to law school upon graduation, it isn't anywhere near the top.</p>
<p>posterX: seek help.</p>
<p>
[quote]
in 2002 the feeder colleges with the greatest representations at Yale Law School
[/quote]
Here's more recent data. :)</p>
<p>Harvard 89
Yale 86
Stanford 42
Princeton 34
Columbia 18
Brown 17
Berkeley 16
Duke 13
Williams 12
UVA 10
Amherst 9</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yale.edu/bulletin/html/law/students.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.yale.edu/bulletin/html/law/students.html</a></p>
<p>Warbler's, here's your list re-sorted an approximate per capita basis.</p>
<p>Yale 6.8
Harvard 5.6
Princeton 3.0
Stanford 2.6
Williams 2.4
Amherst 2.3
Columbia 1.4
Brown 1.1
Duke .9
UVA .3
Berkeley .3</p>