Top feeder schools to elite graduate programs

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Top 50 Feeder Schools
1) Harvard
2) Yale
3) Princeton
4) Stanford
5) Williams
6) Duke
7) Dartmouth
8) MIT
9) Amherst
10) Swarthmore
11) Columbia
12) Brown
13) Pomona
14) University of Chicago
15) Wellesley
16) University of Pennsylvania
17) Georgetown
18) Haverford
19) Bowdoin
20) Rice
21) Northwestern
22) Claremont McKenna
23) Middlebury
24) Johns Hopkins
25) Cornell
26) Bryn Mawr
27) Wesleyan
28) Cal Tech
29) Morehouse
30) University of Michigan
31) New College of Florida
32) Vassar
33 University of Virginia
34) United States Military Academy
35) University of Notre Dame
36) Emory University
37) United States Naval Academy
38) Macalester
39) Brandeis
40) Bates
41) University of California, Berkeley
42) Barnard
43) Trinity
44) Grinnell
45) Tufts
46) Colby
47) Washington University
48) Washington and Lee
49) Case Western Reserve
50) Reed

Source: http://www.collegejournal.com/special/top50feeder.pdf


Top 30 State Feeder Schools
1) University of Michigan
2) New College of Florida
3) University of Virginia
4) University of Calif., Berkeley
5) Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles
6) Georgia Institute of Technology
7) College of William & Mary
8) Stony Brook (SUNY)
9) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
10) University of Texas, Austin
11) Florida A&M University
12) University of Illinois, (Urbana)
13 Concord College
14) Indiana University
15) University of Wisconsin
16) University of Calif., San Diego
17) University of Calif., Irvine
18) University of Vermont
19) University of Calif., Davis
20) Rutgers University
21) University of Washington
22) Miami University
23) University of Maryland
24) University of Oklahoma
25) University of Utah
26) University of Florida
27) University Of Md., Eastern Shore
28) Purdue University
29) Pennsylvania State University
30) University of Louisville

Source: http://www.collegejournal.com/specia...tatefeeder.pdf


Behind the Rankings

Traditionally, college rankings have focused on test scores and grade averages of kids coming in the door. But we wanted to find out what happens after they leave -- and try to get into prestigious grad schools.

We focused on 15 elite schools, five each from medicine, law and business, to serve as our benchmark for profiling where the students came from. Opinions vary, of course, but our list reflects a consensus of grad-school deans we interviewed, top recruiters and published grad-school rankings (including the Journal's own MBA rankings). So for medicine, our schools were Columbia; Harvard; Johns Hopkins; the University of California, San Francisco; and Yale, while our MBA programs were Chicago; Dartmouth's Tuck School; Harvard; MIT's Sloan School; and Penn's Wharton School. In law, we looked at Chicago; Columbia; Harvard; Michigan; and Yale.

Our team of reporters fanned out to these schools to find the alma maters for every student starting this fall, more than 5,100 in all. Nine of the schools gave us their own lists, but for the rest we relied mainly on "face book" directories schools give incoming students. Of course, when it comes to "feeding" grad schools, a college's rate is more important than the raw numbers. (Michigan, for example, sent about twice the number as Georgetown, but it's also more than three times the size.) So our feeder score factors in class size.

How did colleges react to our list? Some were quick to point out that it was only one year of data, and many said they didn't track their feeder rates closely. "I have no way of verifying this," a spokesman for Cornell said. Others said they didn't think this was an important way to judge schools because so many factors play into grad schools' decisions. Still, the colleges in our list did not dispute our findings and neither did the grad schools.

Not that they necessarily want it out there. "We keep a lid on this data," says Mohan Boodram, director of admissions and financial aid at Harvard Medical School. Otherwise, "high-school students will think they have to go to certain schools."

Source: http://www.collegejournal.com/sideba...feeder-sb.html

[fossilfuel]

That's interesting.. but the law and b school data tests sure seem skewed towards the east coast (should have included Stanford for both imo).

Also, I don't see any data about other graduate options, but maybe they're not considered "elite".

From personal experience, I'm pretty sure Caltech is only on the list at all because of medical school. Maybe like 4% of the class ends up in law or business. A majority of people do end up in grad school, but they get phd's or whatever in science.

[truMp]

wow this is really interesting; should expand the sample "elites" though