The elusive college to grad school numbers

Transfer Students
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<p>Does anyone know where you can find the grad school acceptance rate from different colleges? People always talk about these numbers but I always wonder where they come from.</p>

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<p>1) College counselors should have sufficient knowledge of this, or at least of how many students are admitted in their first-choice school.
2) If not, checking the graduate school's website may suffice.</p>

<p>Here is a list provided by Harvard Law School:
<a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/admissions/jd/colleges.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.law.harvard.edu/admissions/jd/colleges.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>For those of you wondering, I took the time to compile the list into a ranked format.</p>

<p>Top Harvard Law Feeder Schools:</p>

<p>1) Harvard
2) Yale
3) Stanford
4) Princeton
5) Duke
6) Brown
7) Columbia
8) Penn
9) UT – Austin
10) Cornell
11) Georgetown
12) UC- Berkeley
13) UCLA
14) Dartmouth
15) BYU
16) UVA
17) Rice
18) UMich
19) Northwestern
20) UChicago
21) Notre Dame
22) Williams
23) Amherst
24) NYU
25) UNC-CH
26) MIT
27) UFlorida
28) Emory
29) Pomona
30) Vanderbilt
31) USC
32) Tufts
33) Boston U</p>

<p>Only the schools that have at least 10 kids at Harvard Law are ranked.</p>

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<p>Yeah...but you need to rework those numbers for size of school. For example for its size a sizable number of the Williams student body ends up at Harvard Law! I wonder what percent even go to law school? You can't compare them to Cornell, on a flat numbers basis, which is literally 6 times bigger. </p>

<p>People fault the Wall Street Journal feeder list, but it does the same thing except with 15 of the top schools.</p>

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<p>It's hard to tell...a better list would be one that accounts for the total number of applicants from each school compared to those that got in.</p>

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<p>Yale has like a 6.3% acceptance rate for Law....</p>

<p>EESH!!!</p>

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<p>Perhaps one could do a percentage that calculates the amount of individuals from each school that were accepted out of those who applied. The "top feeder schools" would be those with the highest percentages...</p>

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<p>nspeds, yeah that's what I was getting at. but i don't know ehre you could find the total # of applicants from each school.</p>

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<p>It was more of a theoretical suggestion; of course, accomplishing it is a distinct problem.</p>

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<p>I am not even sure WSJ could do it. Then you'd have a valuable ranking...otherwise its hard to pinpoint.</p>

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<p>If you mean "grad school" as in Master's/Ph.D. programs, it is not published as far as I know. Each department and program has different criteria. Generally, of those that apply, 10% or less get accepted. There are only a few students accepted per year for each graduate program. If you mean "grad school" to mean professional school such as medicine, law, business, pharmacy, etc, then there are numerous places to get a sense of the acceptance rates. The most common to use is US News.</p>