<p>I'm very curious about the smith girls' preference for their graduate school.
Where did they go after graduation?</p>
<p>For D, it’s UC Berkeley. Top Three in her field, behind(?) Harvard & MIT.</p>
<p>I work in Washington, D.C. for the federal government. My friends went all over, some went to grad school, but many are working now. All of us that are working are anticipating going to grad school at some point in the near future. A brief survey of how we ended up: one is freelance writing, one is doing Peace Corps, one is at grad school at UNC, two work for law firms (one of these is planning to be a lawyer, one an accountant), one is finishing her last year at Harvard Law, one at a top MFA program for writing, one is a zookeeper’s assistant (already finished a 1 year certificate grad program at Columbia), one works for a major hospital in Massachusetts (planning to go to med school), one is studying theater in London, I could go on but the list is exhausting.</p>
<p>One (not recent :)) is a minister officiating at a wedding we are going to in two weeks :)</p>
<p>Thank you very much!!
It’s great to work after graduation. mm… the pre-law in Smith is very good,right?</p>
<p>There is no “pre-Law” per se at Smith and I think you’ll find that most law schools are looking for applicants who majored in something that interested them. Iirc, Philosophy majors have the highest LSAT scores. Math, Physics, and Econ are also up there.</p>
<p>TD is right, there is no pre-law major, but there is a pre-law advisor to help guide those who are interested in law school. But law school is not like med school, there aren’t rigid requirements to be met to get into the top schools, it’s mostly about how well you do on your LSAT and how high of a GPA you can get in undergrad. Many students at Smith who see law school in their future end up majoring in Government, though TD is right, law schools really like applicants from non-traditional majors as well.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in law as a career note that Smith has produced numerous judges, corporate attorneys and until recently an associate counsel to President Obama and chief of staff to Michelle Obama, Susan Sher.</p>
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<p>Full disclosure: Susan isn’t a Smith alumna. She transferred to George Washington University where she received her bachelors degree.</p>
<p>Well, sir, not to put too fine a point on it but she is listed as such on the Smith website…mea culpa.</p>
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<p>TheDad, your math major daughter would statistically score highest on the LSAT. Philosophy majors are a close second.</p>
<p>[Brian</a> Leiter’s Law School Reports: Which Undergrad Majors Do Best on the LSAT?](<a href=“http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2008/04/which-undergrad.html]Brian”>http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2008/04/which-undergrad.html)</p>
<p>[Legal</a> Blog Watch](<a href=“http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/09/choice-of-college-major-sways-lsat-score.html]Legal”>http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/09/choice-of-college-major-sways-lsat-score.html)</p>
<p>CD if your current gig doesn’t work out you have a future as a fact-checker at the New Yorker. :D</p>
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<p>He asks nicely, where? 
[She</a> Went to Smith | Smith College](<a href=“http://www.smith.edu/about-smith/notable-alumnae/she-went-smith]She”>http://www.smith.edu/about-smith/notable-alumnae/she-went-smith)</p>
<p>Although I strongly disagree with the practice, The Smith Alumnae Association considers all former students to be members, whether they graduated or not, and does not differentiate between graduates and non-graduates when identifying Smith alumnae.</p>
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<p>One of my favorite magazines. How’d you know? However, I wasn’t checking your facts. I knew Susan transferred.</p>
<p>Like it or not that is a common practice at many universities and colleges.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s common or not. Either way, that doesn’t make the practice Kosher. A top LAC, or any college, shouldn’t have to manufacture alumni. </p>
<p>I’m taking my daughter to Vassar for freshmen orientation tomorrow. Yup, Vassar still uses the word F word. I don’t have an inkling why. Anyway, lest you believe I’m directing my displeasure solely at Smith, if I learn Vassar too is guilty of fudging their list of notable alumni, I’ll certainly include Vassar in future rants.</p>
<p>On a lighter note, driving through town tonight, I noticed there was a barbecue outside of King. Lucky ladies. Only at Smith!</p>
<p>My daughter is a second-year graduate student at UPitt in neuroscience, with an association with Carnegie Mellon/Pitt Center for the Neural Base of Cognition.</p>
<p>As for fudging alumni, schools do it all the time. My own alma mater claims Robert Frost even though he never graduated.</p>
<p>CD, either my memory about Philosophy majors having the highest SAT was incorrect or else the numbers changed from year to year. I know how I’d bet. :(</p>
<p>If you really want to see tugs of war re colleges “claiming” students, take a case where someone did their undergrad at one, graduate work at a second, taught at a third, and then received a Nobel Prize, MacArthur Fellowship, or the like. </p>
<p>There’s a real cat fight between UC Berkeley and UCLA for a couple.</p>
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<p>Your alma mater’s website doesn’t claim Frost is an alum. It states “he left the college after a few months” Frost attended Harvard two years longer than your college but I’ve never read Harvard claim Frost is an alum. Harvard lists him as a non-graduate alumni. It appears some colleges don’t find it necessary to fudge the facts. Granted, it’s not as if Harvard needs any help in the notable alumni category.</p>
<p>In defense of your point, your alma mater’s Wiki webpage lists Frost as an alum.</p>
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<p>I’m okay assuming the numbers changed from year to year. No harm, no foul.</p>
<p>I think some of this practice originated, especially at the women’s colleges, from the fact that in the long-ago past many women did not finish their education because they married their beaus from Yale and Princeton and dropped out to raise a family. Now this is considered absurd but was acceptable in that era. Barbara Bush comes to mind. </p>
<p>And another thing, the Smith site says “She Went to Smith,” not she “graduated” from Smith. </p>
<p>Many schools, if you want me to list them I will, consider someone an “alum” if they left the school in good standing, even if they did not graduate.</p>
<p>I’m sure you will be happy to post a rebuttal, but we have gone far afield of the original premise. I will also be happy to list 20-30 prominent GRADUATES of Smith who went on to brilliant legal careers.</p>
<p>Hopefully my last posting in this regard.</p>