The "lower" Ivys grad placement

College Search & Selection
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<p>So... outside of HYP, who has the best grad placement for law and business? How does Cornell fair?</p>

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<p>One should keep in mind that generally speaking, most Law and MBA students major in tradional Arts and Science majors, Business or in Engineering. Those two colleges only make up 50%-60% of Cornell’s entire undergraduate student population. At all the other Ivies, such students make up 90%-100% of the entire undergraduate population. As such, it is hard to compare Cornell to the other Ivies. However, I would say that Arts and Sciences majors and Engineering majors have similar placement rates into top graduate schools as the other, non HYP, Ivies.</p>

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<p>posted this on an older thread discussing Harvard Law School / Yale Law School undergrad rankings:</p>

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<p>cornell is different than the other ivies, so as alexandre said, it is harder to make a comparison. as cornell has 7 distinct colleges, including engineering, hotel, ILR, architecture, etc. there is going to be a whole host of kids who have no intention of pursuing studies in law or business.
my kid just graduated ILR, is working for a union, and will be applying to law school next year. I think around 1/3 of ILR grads do eventually go to law school. </p>

<p>it’s funny prestige just linked the harvard #'s above. As I follow Cornell law placement more carefully than most on these boards, I"m aware that Yale is not a favorite of Cornell kids. Cornell had some listing regarding the # of cornell grads and where they applied to law school. The list only showed law schools in which 125 (?) or more cornell grads applied to and indicated # accepted. All the T-14 schools were listed EXCEPT Yale. Now it is possible that 124 kids applied so it didn’t make the listing- but it did show to me that in those years that I saw stats, Yale was not as popular with Cornell kids as all the other T-14’s.<br>
maybe after spending 4 years in Ithaca, 3 years in New Haven didn’t sound too exciting and the other t-14’s had more appeal to Cornell grads.</p>

<p>ok- I found the list that I referred to 2004/2005 action report summary- and it listed schools where 110 cornell students applied to- Yale, stanford, chicago and NW were not listed- so I will assume, less than 110 cornell kids applied to those schools in 2004/2005.
2005/2006 Action report in which 120 or more Cornellians applied, all t-14 's except Yale, Chicago and NW are listed. Yale, chicago, and NW are the only schools listed in both reports so they do not appear to be as popular with cornell kids as the other T-14 schools.</p>

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<p>hmmm… I guess that does make sense keeping in mind that Cornell has the largest student body and a lot of the kids are going after pre-professional degrees and will probably go straight into the workforce. It really skews the per capita rates of kids getting into grad schools. Well, its fine by me, AEM is supposedly the #1 feeder into MBA programs and if not AEM, ILR is a great feeder into law school! Isn’t it?</p>

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<p>Dartmouth seems to have the most placement on Wall Strret and in consulting other than the Wharton part of Penn.</p>

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<p>Business (finance/ consulting placement)

  1. Dartmouth
  2. Penn, columbia
  3. Brown, Cornell</p>

<p>Law (based on data at HLS, YLS, UVA, and a few others)

  1. Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth
  2. Penn
  3. Cornell
    granted this probably has alot to do with the type of school. Probably net-net they are about equal in terms of grad placement.</p>
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<p>BJ- after referring to the Action Reports, I found the Cornell 2006/2007 stats. They only listed those schools in which 95 or more Cornell grads/alum applied. Yale still gets no Cornell love. It’s not on the list so I’ll assume less then 95 applied in 2007. Other top schools not meeting the 95 student threshold was Stanford and Northwestern. I think Northwestern and Yale were the only 2 T-14 schools that never showed up on those lists. I guess for whatever reason, they’re not as popular with Cornell grads. Chicago made the 2006/2007 list but barely. I believe 97 Cornell students applied to Chicago.</p>