History of Yale History: Students who got into Yale History grad program

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<p>If you cared (which you apparently don’t, given the unrelentingly hostile nature of your posts towards Penn), you would find that Penn has a career services survey that is amazingly detailed and lists employers and grad programs of all students who have participated in the survey. A few things are apparent–Penn students are much more inclined to go to law and medical school than other graduate programs and large percentages of Penn students take jobs (and pretty good ones) immediately after graduation. </p>

<p>As I have noted before, without knowing how many Penn students apply to the programs you have chosen to highlight, you cannot make a judgment whether Penn students can or cannot get into these programs (much less a judgment about the quality of the Penn undergraduate education and the students who attend the school). Just as an example, however, let’s take the case of history. Of students who responded to the survey who majored or double majored in history, 21 went on to grad school of various kinds including 2 to the London School of Economics, 1 to Cambridge, 1 to Oxford, 1 to Stanford, 2 to Penn and 12 to law school, including 3 to Harvard Law. These results seem pretty impressive to me, even though none of the students went to Yale.
For those interested, here’s the link to the 2008 survey for the college of arts and sciences <a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/college/2008cpsurvey.pdf[/url]”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/college/2008cpsurvey.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Penn is an excellent school, one of many excellent schools across the country. It has a more pre-professional bent than certain other schools, but, in my judgment, that doesn’t make Penn better or worse than those other schools, just different (and probably appealing to a different type of student). The US News rankings are hardly perfect. Rather, like many ranking systems, they use factors that the publishers consider important. By those criteria, Penn was number 4 this year, but it could easily drop to 7 or 8 next year. People (like you) who appear to be fixated on the rankings and constantly begin negative threads about a specific school seem to lack a sense of balance and proportion. Hopefully, as you get older, you will develop the maturity that you seem to lack at the current time.</p>