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<li><p>Its about 24/25% if I remember the statistic accurately (% of people with PhD 10 years out or something). Caltech is something like 33% though, which is quite a jump between 1st and 2nd. Though, thats basically going from 1 out of 3 people to 1 out of 4.</p></li>
<li><p>We are extremely well prepared, which you see with regard to graduate placement even though we have grade deflation. My friend who has about a 3.0 GPA is going to U of Maryland next year, which is a very well ranked school for physics (like 12th overall?). Placement in the top 5 programs is pretty competitive for any school, but every Mudder who wants to go to grad school has gotten in somewhere, and usually quite good. In the past there have been students who did not get accepted anywhere (they were applying to string theory), but then professors were able to call up connections and get them into a top 20 program anyways.</p></li>
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