Colleges That Get You Into The Best Grad Schools

College Search & Selection
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<p>This list has been HEAVILY criticized in the media. Someone goofed up big time on the math!! They needed to compute the placement rate (percentage) for each of the schools, but instead of dividing by total number of students that applied to med school, they divided by the total number of students in the under grad! </p>

<p>WSJ has been bashed like crazy for failing to divide properly. The placement rate of Brown is 80%, but since they're dividing by total class size, the placement rate becomes 4%!!!!! </p>

<p>These are just about the faultiest stats ever published.</p>

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<p>golubb: Please post a link. I have not been able to find the info you mentioned.</p>

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<p>Golubb, the report was indeed criticized...because it favored Ivy League and East coast schools. 11 of the 15 schools used were East Coast schools...9 of them were Ivies. The Ivies give each other preferential treatment. And they conveniently leave out Engineeering. Midwestrern School, West coast schools and schools with large Engineering schools were hurt by this study. All the WSJ needs to look at the top 10 or 15 graduate programs rather than just the top 5 and it also should add Engineering. You would have a much better report if they do that.</p>

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<p>joemama - I don't have the links handy, but dude just read the first five lines on the report!! They divided by class size and NOT the number of students that applied to grad schools! How bad is that ?? They totally goofed up in their """feeder score"""....it's so bogus.</p>

<p>"The rankings are based on the number of students a college sends to a grad school divided by the college’s class size—our Feeder Score."</p>

<p>Alexandre, you're right it does seem like they chose their "top schools" very subjectively and thus skewed the results so that</p>

<p>1> the results favored HYP
2) the results favored LAC students....since they have no choice but to apply to brand-name schools after graduation, a HUGE number of LAC students are desperate to get into Ivies and eventually succeed. Thus, LACs would have a huge """feeder score"""</p>