<p>Dave, when you post something like that it's a courtesy to report the URL. Thanks for the information.</p>
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- Oberlin College 61
- Carleton College 36
- Stanford U. 36
- Duke U. 33
- U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor 27
- U. of Chicago 26
- U. of California at Berkeley 23
- Reed College 21
- Northwestern U. 19
- College of William and Mary 18
- U. of Colorado at Boulder 18
- Vanderbilt U. 18
- Washington U. in St. Louis 17
- Pomona College 16
- Brigham Young U. 15
- Kenyon College 15
- U. of Richmond 15
- U. of Wisconsin at Madison 15
- Virginia Tech 15
- Georgetown U. 14
- George Washington U. 14
- Macalester College 14
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I hate to do this ... but it isn't it a little weird that none of the IVY league schools are on this list ... given 30+ acceptences at elite schools like Stanford and Duke I'd think at least one of the IVYs would have had at least 14 kids go there ... interesting (or strange)</p>
<p>well, there ya go. My brother the professor sent his D to Oberlin and his S to Carleton. :)</p>
<p>"I hate to do this ... but it isn't it a little weird that none of the IVY league schools are on this list ... given 30+ acceptences at elite schools like Stanford and Duke I'd think at least one of the IVYs would have had at least 14 kids go there ... interesting (or strange)"</p>
<p>Well, you might want to inquire where the Ivy profs did THEIR undergrad degrees....(with the exception of Yale in some of the humanities, and Princeton in two sciences, none of the Ivies finish in the top 10 for Ph.D. productivity rates. Though I'm not sure about this as explanation, as Stanford and Duke don't either.)</p>
<p>Here is the link that I think mini was refering to: <a href="http://web.reed.edu/ir/phd.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.reed.edu/ir/phd.html</a>.</p>
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Well, you might want to inquire where the Ivy profs did THEIR undergrad degrees....(with the exception of Yale in some of the humanities, and Princeton in two sciences, none of the Ivies finish in the top 10 for Ph.D. productivity rates. Though I'm not sure about this as explanation, as Stanford and Duke don't either.)
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I understand this ... and I would think the LACs appear more often as people are more knowledgeable about colleges ... but the numbers themselves are counterintuitive.</p>
<p>One example, these were professors in the northeast so I'd expect atleast some bias to the east .... and the results show 21 kids at Reed and 16 kids at Ponoma ... both these schools are something like 10 times smaller than Cornell or Penn. While I can easily buy that a higher percentage of kids choose Reed or Pomona over Cornell or Penn ... I find it hard to believe that the preference was on the scale of 10-15 times higher percentage of kids would chose Reed or Pomona over Cornell or Penn ... it just looks strange.</p>
<p>I claim to be a math geek .. but can't do math ... Reed and Ponoma are more like 5-8 times smaller than Cornell and Penn and not 10-15 times smaller.</p>
<p>Keep in mind regression to the mean....</p>
<p>What makes us think faculty kids can even get into Harvard et al? And worse, these kids may want to become professors like their parents! What would THAT do to fundraising? Nah, they want the kids of doctors, lawyers, wall street types - kids with "real" futures, good inheritances (for future donations?) and so forth. Faculty kids???</p>
<p>Seriously, in the admissions lottery, I don't see much advantage to being a faculty brat. The parents often can't afford the right prep schools, summer camps, (in this area, best towns for good public schools) etc. I suspect there is also a bit of intellectual rebellion among their kids.</p>
<p>We met with a senior adcom from Yale last year. His daughter was at Harvard. I often think of this when I hear people bashing Harvard and favoring Yale on these boards. ;-)</p>
<p>Does being the child of a faculty member help with Yale admissions?</p>
<p>Well, one such child on this board was deferred EA, for what little that's worth.</p>