<p>Anyone know where I could find links regarding the graduate school placement of UVA undergrads? I'm looking to see what graduate schools and programs they are admitted to and attend and things like that. I've looked through UVA's website but can't necessarily find anything.</p>
<p>5 years old, but its the best data I am aware of. If you already know your major, Professors in that dept. might give you more useful and detailed info if you ask for it.</p>
<p>[Careers:</a> First Destinations — Undergraduate, College of Arts & Sciences, U.Va.](<a href=“http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/college/career/resource/firstdestinations.html]Careers:”>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/college/career/resource/firstdestinations.html)</p>
<p>BME has stats for the last four years here:</p>
<p>[University</a> of Virginia | Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME)](<a href=“http://bme.virginia.edu/undergraduate/careers.html]University”>http://bme.virginia.edu/undergraduate/careers.html)</p>
<p>BME is hardcore. Don’t take that sample as close to representative of the student body as a whole.</p>
<p>Thanks for the links everyone. Just trying to get a general idea. I’m happy with my choice here but I’m slighty concerned with graduate school prospects relative to some schools I passed up on to go here. Some of the links are reassuring.</p>
<p>There are some stats available for law school admittance, which they were passing out at the career desk at orientation. It was UVa applicants to ABA-approved law schools. (There are also plenty of mediocre law schools that are not ABA approved). I believe they said 94% of UVa applicants were accepted by at least one. They also had average LSAT scores of UVa grads, etc.</p>
<p>Any correlation between undergrad and graduate school placement is self selective in my opinion. It’s just that more intelligent people seem to choose more selective undergrads and these students are more likely to attend better graduate schools. On an individual level, attending one undergrad over another should have a minimal effect on graduate school placement. </p>
<p>I’d love to see that UVA applicants law school admittance stats just out of curiosity. Some law schools will admit just about anyone, so that 94% number is meaningless.</p>
<p>MMM I’m sensing some bitterness from LSU.</p>
<p>LSU: That is why UVa only reports admittances to ABA approved law schools.</p>
<p>I plan on going to law school next year and I believe there are about 200 or so ABA approved law schools. LSU sort of has a point, there are a lot of lowly ranked law schools (ABA approved) that aren’t very strict about selection, and frankly aren’t worth the cost of attendance. Law schools care deeply about their rankings, and the top ones have very stringent cutoff standards that don’t budge much at all.</p>
<p>Wiki has a list of all law schools in the US, which lists which ones are ABA acredited.</p>
<p>[List</a> of law schools in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_schools_in_the_United_States]List”>List of law schools in the United States - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Yes, unless you can go very cheaply and want to use your law degree for public service, people are wasting their time and money going to a 3rd or 4th tier law school.</p>
<p>Grad School admissions are a horse of another color. Yes, your undergrad institution will matter to a certain degree, but it’s not the be all-end all to grad school admissions. Neither is the GRE in most cases. Graduate committees are more interested in what you’ve done while in school (internships, research), how well you’ve done academically, what your goals are and your potential as a future academic. This is often more strongly the case for PhD programs than terminal MA/MS programs. Particularly important for PhD programs (if that is your anticipated road to take) is how well your interests mesh with the faculty with whom you’d be working.</p>
<p>The other thing with grad schools is that the “best (undergrad) schools” generally, may not be the “best school” for your grad program, so even if the data was available, it may not be meaningful to you unless you know your academic specialty and the faculty available in different programs. Harvard may be ranked in the top #5 for your given academic discipline, but it doesn’t mean it will be the best fit for you both academically or professionally. Another “lower” ranked school may have the right faculty that you want to work with, and that is generally one of the most important aspects of graduate school searching.</p>
<p>Good law schools like good medical schools are really concerned with two things: LSAT/MCAT test scores and undergrad gpa. Generally no hollistic admissions. Sure its nice if you can write a great essay or that you have good recommendations, but that will not make up for a low test score or undergrad gpa. That is how schools drop in the rankings, by taking more risks on applicants with lower stats. A drop in national rankings means some very ticked off alumni. My brother learned the hard way in that he thought his very high LSAT score and extensive work experience would make up for a weak undergrad gpa. Short story: it did not. He got into a decent regional school but his job opportunities after getting his jd were minimal. When it comes to good law/medical schools, you either have the numbers or you don’t.</p>
<p>“MMM I’m sensing some bitterness from LSU.” ??? I attended a mediocre undergrad (I wonder which one) and will be at UVA Law in the fall. You’re the one making judgments about me based on my screenname. What bitterness? I’m trying to give an informed opinion here. I used this board during my college search and hung around.</p>
<p>“LSU: That is why UVa only reports admittances to ABA approved law schools.”</p>
<p>There are plenty of ABA approved law schools (Thomas Cooley, Florida Coastal, etc.) that will accept almost anyone with a pulse</p>
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<p>Generally true. But that’s professional school…not so much an academic graduate program. OP didn’t specify what he/she was looking at, and only made references to ‘graduate schools’. I do know a number of friends who’ve gone through the law school process, and the “numbers game” doesn’t always work out…sometimes the holistic approach is what becomes necessary when you have numerous students applying with very similar GPA’s and LSATs. Very much like many academic graduate programs (and even undergrad admissions), law school admissions is often self-selecting.</p>
<p>Technically speaking, I will be looking at neuroscience phd programs when the time comes, but I really just wanted to get a feel for the reputation of UVA with grad programs in general. Would top neuroscience programs like MIT, Princeton, Hopkins, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Duke, and the likes be a possibility assuming success at UVA…</p>