Vanderbilt vs. Bowdoin vs. UVa

Colleges and Universities A-Z Vanderbilt University
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<p>Pancaked: The percentage you cite refers to what the class is doing 1 year after graduation. Many students go back to graduate school after working for a few years. This is especially true of JDs and MBA. The percentage who eventually obtain higher degrees is much higher than 20%. </p>

<p>Also, not sure how you arrive at the figure of 16 enrolled students. I suspect you refer to the number of Bowdoin grads who go went the top 5 grad schools for law, business and medicine. That is, your figure is derived from the WSJ survey. If so, that’s a pretty impressive figure since only about 30 Bowdoin students go directly into law school, med school or business school in a given year…Over half the class to a top 5 program. Pretty impressive in my book.</p>

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<p>I cited 16% a “year out” because I was making a direct comparison to Vanderbilt’s 40% graduate school enrollment in the Fall semester after graduation (3 months out). It was not a mistake.</p>

<p>My point about the WSJ article was that very small sample sizes are highly susceptible to error by sampling fluctuation. Also, that article was published in 2005. Vandy’s acceptance rate for the class of 2004 was around 60%… Using that article to compare these two schools is totally meaningless.</p>