<p>I looked through the threads comparing them and couldn't find an answer to what I was wondering. How do the two compare in terms of placement into business and law school?</p>
<p>I doubt you will get a good answer. As far as I know there are no reliable performance comparisons for this kind of outcome. The closest I’ve seen is a ranking of 50 undergraduate schools done by the Wall Street Journal a few years back, but the results are now dated and the methodology had some problems. One issue was the choice of law, medical, and business schools. Another was the method of counting students.</p>
<p>I agree with tk, but it might be worth poking around the websites of the two schools. Sometimes, they post data as to where their graduating seniors ended up.</p>
<p>They are probably very similar. I don’t think you can go wrong choosing either.</p>
<p>There was a pay scale survey by college a year or two back, listing both early and mid-career. I’m not locating what I’m looking for online immediately.
Colgate was quite high, I think higher than Cornell. I tend to attribute that to better connected parents at Colgate and career preferences between Colgate students and Cornell students. But that is just a hunch.
Both fine schools, of course.
I found a news article…</p>
<p><a href=“http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/107374/do-elite-colleges-produce-the-best-paid-graduates.html?mod=edu-collegeprep[/url]”>http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/107374/do-elite-colleges-produce-the-best-paid-graduates.html?mod=edu-collegeprep</a></p>
<p>But the figures are about people with a terminal undergraduate degree. Maybe not what you are looking for.</p>
<p>On law school, from everything gather, the LSAT trumps about everything. If I were aiming for law school, I would major in the LSAT.
The relationship with the GMAT is a little looser.
But in either case, IMO, another couple of points on the test is more important than Colgate vs. Cornell. I would choose between the schools based upon other criteria.</p>
<p>"But the figures are about people with a terminal undergraduate degree. Maybe not what you are looking for. "</p>
<p>Almost certainly not. considering about 75% of Cornell CAS students get advanced degrees, probably significant at Colgate as well.</p>
<p>But moreover the thing one must keep in mind is Colgate is solely an arts & sciences college while only 1/3 of Cornell’s students are studying in its Arts & sciences college.
The goals, career paths, abilities, interests of the students at Cornell’s various other colleges are very diverse. You could compare apples to apples by looking at only its Arts & Sciences college but this data is not available. In any event it would be made pointless by excluding advance degree holders (which are the wide majority), and also the methodology of the data collection itself is probably somewhat lacking I imagine.</p>