Williams as a Better Graduate Feeder than Amherst College

Colleges and Universities A-Z Amherst College
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<p>Hey,</p>

<p>I recently found this Wall Street Journal article that looked for which colleges have the best feeding rate to top graduate school universities.
Here is the article if you’re interested:
<a href=“http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/college/feederschools.htm#rankings[/url]”>http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/college/feederschools.htm#rankings</a></p>

<p>But I found it interesting that, even though it isn’t by that many students, Williams ranks #5 under Stanford, while Amherst is #9.
<a href=“http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf[/url]”>http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf</a></p>

<p>Although I still rather go to Amherst, I found this interesting and I wonder why this is.</p>

<p>Comments appreciated.</p>

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<p>the methodology is extremely flawed. horrendously small sample size + the fact that they only take into account professional schools (and a pathetic top 5 of each at that) are enough to discredit the findings. lucky for them though, the rankings more or less coincide with what people think should be the case.</p>

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<p>This doesn't answer your question, but a list of the top five law schools that does not include Stanford is silly. The current top 5 are: Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, NYU. Chicago and Michigan are in the next group.</p>

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<p>Intriguing though, although they were based on entirely different data, WSJ feeder ranking and USNews college ranking sort of agreed each other.</p>