<p>Yet another one!</p>
<p>THE TOP 50 FEEDER SCHOOLS
1 Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.
1,666 358 21.49% Theres no such thing as a sure bet. But for getting into a good grad
school, a Harvard bachelors degree remains the next best thing.
2 Yale University
New Haven, Conn.
1,286 231 17.96% What happened to school loyalty? More Yalies (40) are going to Harvard
Law thisfall than Yale Law (30).
3 Princeton University
Princeton, N.J.
1,103 174 15.78% One of the few Ivies without its own professional school, Princeton held
its first grad-school fair last year.
4 Stanford University
Stanford, Calif.
1,692 181 10.70% Based on our numbers, does a particularly strong job at spawning future
MBA stars; med school could use work.
5 Williams College
Williamstown, Mass.
519 47 9.06% An up-and-comer for some time, this Little Ivy did better than many of
the actual Ivies.
6 Duke University
Durham, N.C.
1,615 139 8.61% Studentsdo well here but may take their time; only 25% of graduates
here go immediately to a professional school.
7 Dartmouth College
Hanover, N.H.
1,101 93 8.45% Recently put itscredentials file online to help students track recommendation
letters from professors.
8 Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
1,187 92 7.75% One of the best on our list at getting kids into business school, including
more than two dozen into Harvard Business this fall alone.
9 Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. 431 33 7.66% Encourages use of grad-school advising services even after graduation.
10 Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, Pa.
336 25 7.44% Enrollment hastripled in seven years for an honors program here thats
meant to mimic grad school with small seminars.
11 Columbia University
New York
1,652 118 7.14% Youd think undergradshere would have an edge getting into itselilte law
and medical schools. But several other Ivies sent more students.
12 Brown University, Providence, R.I. 1,506 98 6.51% Sixth-ranked Ivy tilted toward law in our figures; no formal pre-law program.
13 Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. 362 23 6.35% One of our bigger surprises. Nearly half of undergraduates say theyre going
straight to grad school, up from 32% last year.
14 University of Chicago
Chicago
948 59 6.22% Has 11 of its graduates at Wharton this year; its business school has
new program encouraging seniors to return to Chicago for their MBA.
15 Wellesley College
Wellesley, Mass.
585 35 5.98% Close to the Crimson: Pre-business association has field tripsto Harvard
Business, where eight alums started this fall.
16 University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
2,785 153 5.49% Penns medical school (not one of our survey schools) has the highest
percentage of Penn undergrads in six years.
17 Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
1,666 85 5.10% Its highest numbers were at Harvard Business and Harvard Law12 studentseach
this fall.
18 Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. 291 13 4.47% Recently reinstated a grad-school orientation program.
19 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 404 16 3.96% Now has online service to help kids compile grad-school applications.
20 Rice University, Houston 764 29 3.80% President Malcolm Gillis says numbers in surprising findings seem low.
21 Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill.
1,978 73 3.69% Feeding itself: New option gives incoming freshmen in the undergrad engineering
program a slot in at business grad school, too.
22 Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, Calif.
271 10 3.69% Aspiring lawyers could do worse: Schools students landed at Chicago,
Harvard, Michigan and Yale law schools.
23 Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vt.
660 24 3.64% Officials say its a feeder for Dartmouths MBA, but our survey turned
up only two alumsthere this fall (10 are at Harvard B-school).
24 Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore 1,272 45 3.54% Med school remains the most popular grad choice here.
25 Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 3,565 115 3.23% Increased funding to advise women and minorities on grad school.
Spokesman disputes lasting meaning of our survey.
26 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 310 9 2.90% Grad-school history: One of the first Ph.D. programs for women in the U.S.
27 Wesleyan University
Middletown, Conn.
731 21 2.87% Within five yearsof graduating, 80% of Wesleyan grads wind up at some
form of graduate or professional school.
28 California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
249 7 2.81% Lighter on law than most in our top 50.
29 Morehouse College, Atlanta 501 14 2.79% Thisall-male, traditionally black college saysit has has actually scaled
back student trips to top Northeast grad schools.
30 University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich.
5,720 156 2.73% Grad schools in our survey should pay a bit more attention to geographic
diversity, honors-program chief says.
31 New College of Florida
Sarasota, Fla.
113 3 2.65% At this honors college of the Florida state schools, professorsgiv e narrative
evaluations instead of letter grades.
32 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 581 15 2.58% Saysits good for future doctors, but none at Harvard or Yale this fall.
33 University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Va.
3,213 82 2.55% The No. 3 public college on our list doesnt have a university-wide
honorsprog ram.
34 United States Military
Academy, West Point, N.Y.
966 23 2.38% Chief executives, Army-style: A surprising showing at Harvard Business
(13 students this year) boosted West Points score.
35 University of Notre Dame
South Bend, Ind.
1,985 45 2.27% Less success at medical schools than some others in our group.
36 Emory University, Atlanta 1,509 33 2.19% Dean says of ranking: Ivy begets Ivy.
37 United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, Md.
986 21 2.13% All business, sir: The bulk of its grad-school students ended up at Harvard,
MIT and Wharton business programs.
38 Macalester College
St. Paul, Minn.
406 8 1.97% Less widely known than some Eastern liberal-arts colleges, it pushes internships
in health-care to help med-school prospects.
39 Brandeis University,Waltham, Mass. 815 16 1.96% School says its bringing in top grad schools for admissions fair.
40 Bates College, Lewiston, Maine 417 8 1.92% Taps alumni to help students get key internships.
41 University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif.
6,198 118 1.90% Saysits kids are accepted to top grad schoolsin far greater numbers
than choose to attend.
42 Barnard College, New York 588 11 1.87% Placed much lower than Columbia, the Ivy itsaffiliated with.
43 Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. 485 9 1.86% Grads of this liberal-arts school seemed to favor MBA programs.
44 Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 337 6 1.78% For kids interested in a specific grad program, networking program ties
them with an alum who attended or worked there.
45 Tufts University, Medford, Mass. 1,246 22 1.77% Far from tops in Boston, but still edged out Boston College (No. 79).
46 Colby College, Waterville, Maine 471 8 1.70% LagsMaine rivals Bates and Bowdoin.
47 Washington University, St. Louis 1,709 29 1.70% Made our top 50, but one of the more expensive schools on our list (tuition
is $28,300 a year). Says its very successful at placing students.
48 Washingtonand Lee, Lexington, Va. 413 7 1.69% No New Haven: School made our cutbut nobody at Yale Med or Law.
49 Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland
729 12 1.65% Theyre working on it, with new annual conference giving advice on applying
to graduate schools.
50 Reed College, Portland, Ore. 304 5 1.64% Sure, Carnegie MellonNo. 51 on our listhad more students (19) get
into our top schools, but Reed had slightly higher success rate.</p>