<p>"You can find it here in the arcjieves posted by moderator Alexander"</p>
<p>suze, which alexander is that who posted such informative messages???
there is one Alexander who has no posts at all and other members who have Alexander in their nicknames but no Alexander in plain!!!</p>
<p>People who graduate from top UG schools can make a lot of money, it just depends on what you do with your time there and where you want to go afterwards. I'd hazard a guess that you also find a higher percentage of idealists at top schools than at state schools, who want to work for non-profits, follow their intellectual holy grail via grad school for something obscure, etc.</p>
<p>You're obviously going to have a tough time convincing a bunch of high school students obsessed with college admissions (which is most of this board) that they're really worrying over nothing. </p>
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From a cursory list of admits at schoola like Harvard law and B, what amazes me is the low numbers from schools like cal, UCLA, UNC etc. as compared to Brown, Duke, Dartmouth.
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<p>Is it really that amazing that a New England school is filled largely with people from other schools in the region?</p>
<p>"Is it really that amazing that a New England school is filled largely with people from other schools in the region?"</p>
<p>The fact is these grad programs are top programs. They are programs that are very difficult to get into b/c many people apply there. If you look at UChicago or Stanford, students are still coming largely from the same undergrad institutions, even though geographical locale is different. You can argue that has something to do with the quality of the students going into college, but that's another debate.</p>
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<p>I think suze wants for you to check post by Alexandre.</p>
<p>"Is it really that amazing that a New England school is filled largely with people from other schools in the region?"</p>
<p>For what its worth, Duke's not in the same region as Harvard...also, it could be that the students at Brown, Dartmouth, and Duke were more competetive to begin with than other students, but it seems there really is a skew for people with same LSAT scores to law school and that sort of thing...of course, no firm evidence either way</p>
<p>To me, it seems people want to go to elite colleges because they like the fact that they are surrounded by smart people, but I'm not sure how much the success of an equally intelligent person will change with a better degree</p>
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For what its worth, Duke's not in the same region as Harvard... it could be that the students at Brown, Dartmouth, and Duke were more competetive to begin with than other students, but it seems there really is a skew for people with same LSAT scores to law school and that sort of thing...of course, no firm evidence either way
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<p>Realistically, a lot of the kids at Duke are from the Northeast to begin with. But in any event, I would buy this argument if you were comparing Brown, Dartmouth and Duke to, say, Michigan State. There's not really any question that the average LSAT is higher at the first three. But when the comparison is to Berkeley and UCLA, it's just silly to imply that they're somehow not as good on the basis of their representation at one New England school. For whatever it's worth, they each have about 40 grads currently at HLS, anyway.</p>
<p>HLS undergead for 2005-2006
Duke - 55
Brown - 51
UCLA -41
Berkeley - 43
Dartmouth - 31</p>
<p>Yep, the numbers are really similar for all of them</p>