<p>Which school would you say is better in quality of education and sending students to top grad schools?</p>
<p>I think that’s like comparing apples to oranges. I will say that both send graduates to grad school at good rates, though I don’t have the numbers off the top of my head.</p>
<p>New College is much better for graduate school preparation. Its entire curriculum is structured around making students strong applicants for top programs. To a large extent, it doesn’t make sense to attend New College if one isn’t planning on going to grad school. This explains the high rate of alums who continue their educations-- I think it’s close to 2/3. </p>
<p>I say this both as a New College alum who is now a Cornell University graduate student, and as a friend of many UF students.</p>
<p>^Joshnewcollege, D was accepted to New College and it is high on her list. We were wondering what grad schools NCF grads typically went to. You stated that the curriculum makes the students strong applicants for top programs. I had heard that too, but didn’t have a lot of info on where the students actually went.</p>
<p>Among public institutions New College is second only to UMich in the percentage of students admitted to top graduate programs in medicine, business and law. New College is also among the nation’s top 10 liberal arts colleges in terms of per-capita Fulbright production. As to popular grad schools, it depends on what one is studying. Also, one chooses a grad school department for the people who are doing interesting work in one’s field, not for the name of the university as a whole, so the popular choices are personal, and change as the field changes and/or the people doing interesting work move about. If your D knows what she wants to study she can speak with someone in that department and perhaps gain some insight into the schools recent grads who share her interests have chosen to attend.</p>
<p>New College’s website has tremendous detail of which graduate programs onto which its alunmi move. One has to dig a little.</p>
<p>For example, I found a report online that stated that for a recent NCF class almost ten percent applied to law school and two-thirds of NCF alums who applied at UF law school were accepted there and an even higher percentage (it may have even been 100 percent) of those who applied to FSU law school were accepted there. Most NCF students who applied at UF law school went elsewhere, while none of those accepted at FSU law school went there, so it was clear that NCF alums had multiple choices about where to attend law school.</p>
<p>It further appeared from the data that almost all, if not all, of NCF’s law school applicants that year were accepted for law school somewhere.</p>
<p>Thanks Senior’s Dad…my D will be applying to law schools next year!</p>