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<p>most courses are open to ungergraduates and graduate students. So this is a case where the graduate rankings matter. </p>
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<p>This is true of virtually every department at Harvard, from English to psychology to economics to paleontology.</p>
<p>Graduate school rankings are absolutely important. Graduate school rankings ultimately define the research money coming to the school and the research money cascades to undergraduate research. During the senior year, you do take graduate courses. Undergraduate research plays an important role to get admitted to MBA, Law, Medicine and Dentistry.</p>
<p>Law schools don't care about research.</p>
<p>Depends what kind of research we're talking about.. if research a 1845 Supreme Court decision and find an overlooked error or something, Law schools might care :)</p>
<p>What about B-schools?</p>
<p>Obviously if you're going to consider extreme cases... but even then I'm not so sure it'll matter so much.</p>
<p>GPA/LSAT is much more important than any research you might do as un undergrad, and in many cases GPA/LSAT will probably get you in by themselves.</p>
<p>The rankings from USNews are DEPARTMENTAL rankings - based on peer assessment of the strength of the faculty in those departments. </p>
<p>At Harvard, at any rate, there is ONE Faculty of Arts & Sciences .... there are not separate faculties for undergraduates and graduates.</p>
<p>Sorry about that! I thought for sure that Math was their area of weakness. So I guess the answer is that they do not have an area of weakness huh? :)</p>
<p>So I guess the answer is that they do not have an area of weakness huh? </p>
<p>engineering :)</p>
<p>Cornell beats them in some areas - particularly of the "practical" sort: ie, the School of Agriculture, the School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hotel School ... etc.</p>
<p>marite-I must have gotten the two mixed up! I did research a while back on good engineering schools and Harvard must not have been one of them. I must have just assumed that their math was not that great either. Are you planning o do engineering? If so, where?</p>
<p>Nope. My S is planning to major in math, which is why I know about math programs at Harvard and other schools :)</p>
<p>I'm going to Harvard.</p>
<p>All I know is, If I'm accepted at any one of those schools (much less 2, or all 3), I'd be beyond thrilled. </p>
<p>That said, I wouldn't go to Stanford because California is too far for me (I live in NY). Harvard's Biology programs are very strong, and through Harvard I could take classes in the MIT Chemistry department I believe. Yale never carried unique appeal to me, but I'd be thrilled to go there too.</p>