@JHS - interesting about what you are saying about law schools now. So, for instance, when the class of 2016 outcomes report says that “84% of UChicago 2016 cycle applicants were admitted to top-14 law schools” they are including kids who graduated in 2015 or earlier?
Absolutely. That’s what “2016 cycle” means. It’s people who applied in 2015-2016, not people who graduated in 2016.
By the way, I think the law school pendulum may actually be swinging back the other way to some extent. About a decade ago a friend who sat on the admissions committee of an Ivy League law school (not Yale) told me that they were managing admissions to get their average age at admissions and percentage of graduate degrees above Yale’s level. I don’t think that was sustained for long, and they are more likely today to accept a college senior than they were back then. That said, I strongly doubt that as much as half the entering class there is coming straight out of college.
EDIT: Just looked at a few entering class profiles.
Harvard: 80% at least one year out, 72% two or more years. 13% advanced degrees
Columbia: 76% one year, 53% more than one year, 9% advanced degrees
Penn: 67% at least one year out, 5% advanced degrees
In my daughter’s school, where 6 kids were admitted to UChicago, all of them decided to attend.
5 kids were admitted to Yale, and only one will attend. Interesting…
@Cariño do you know how many of those six admits were also admitted to Yale, or to other top colleges for that matter?
My daughter was admitted to Columbia, Cornell, UPenn, Duke, Vanderbilt and three more.
Two of the kids did ED. One was between UChicago and Stanford for Economics. A girl was admitted in UC, Yale and Cornell as well. I don’t remember the last one…
The kids that decided not going to Yale said that the factors that influenced their decision were definitely the bad reputation of New Haven and the accessibility. One of them lived a true nightmare traveling there for the admitted students visit two weeks ago. One of the admitted girls is going to USC instead, for example. She said that she prefers to live in LA.