<p>I can’t get into an Ivy or top school for college, but I want to go to a top school for grad school. Are there any four-year institutions that consistently push grads through to top grad schools?
gpa-3.6
SAT I=1270/1900</p>
<p>Reed College</p>
<p>Also look at the rest of these: [Colleges</a> That Change Lives](<a href=“http://ctcl.org/]Colleges”>http://ctcl.org/)</p>
<p>A lot of LACs do. Need more specifics.</p>
<p>With your stats, check out: Clark University, Worcester, MA; Union College, NY; Dickinson College, PA; Lawrence University; Denison University.</p>
<p>It’s not clear from your original post (“4-year institutions”??) if you want only smallish schools with few or no grad programs. If you’re ok with universities, check out Case Western Reserve U.</p>
<p>Check out Whitman College</p>
<p>What are you looking to study?</p>
<p>I’m also interested in this, I am looking into studying economics. 4.0 GPA(soon to be 3.97 though) UW, 31 ACT, 2050 SAT</p>
<p>Davidson and CMC are good choices for Economics with those stats, WiscoKid</p>
<p>SUNY Geneseo - Public LAC in NY </p>
<p>Avg gpa 94, SAT 1340 (Your SAT is within their range though)</p>
<p>CMC, Davidson, Reed, and Whitman are great schools, but they are reaches given your SATs. Check out Beloit College.</p>
<p>Check out the following tables:</p>
<p>[COLLEGE</a> PHD PRODUCTIVITY](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/phd.html]COLLEGE”>Doctoral Degree Productivity - Institutional Research - Reed College)</p>
<p>Two caveats:</p>
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<li><p>These tables cite schools whose graduates earn PhDs at relatively high rates. They don’t tell you where they get them. However, the concept of “top school” is a little different for grad schools than for colleges. A top school for a PhD program generally is one that has a professor you want to work with, in a specific sub-discipline. So it would be very hard to rank colleges by PhD production if you wanted to factor in top schools.</p></li>
<li><p>Most of the cited schools are very selective, but not all are. Exceptions: Kalamazoo, Wabash, College of Wooster, Beloit, Minnesota/Morris, Marlboro, Lawrence.</p></li>
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<p>That’s an impressive graphic for Reed, TK. One thing that you want to keep in mind though, is that it may not necessarily reflect the strengths of those departments at the schools listed as much as it reflects their limited numbers of other majors. For instance, the U. of N.H. - Manchester may or may not be all that outstanding in the Humanities; they just don’t have all the Business, Nursing, and Engineering majors who, if present, would minimize the percentage of their student body who study in the Humanities.</p>
<p>BTW, for a student in the 1270 / 1900 range, a few LACs I’d look into would be Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, and Furman.</p>
<p>^ Yes, gadad’s point may help account for why LACs are over-represented in the PhD production tables. Why Reed and Carleton show up in so many columns, but other selective LACs do not, is another matter. It may be that Reed and Carleton truly are better at motivating and preparing students for advanced academic work. Presumably there are self-selection factors at work as well.</p>
<p>So, use these tables only as starting points.</p>
<p>Does any one know if Colorado College has a high graduate school placement? The block schedule really appeals to me, and it seems like a pretty all-around amazing school</p>
<p>Rice University. I couldn’t find the original source, but I read recently that a survey of Rice graduates showed that about 90% got into their first or second choice graduate or professional school.</p>
<p>Wabash College:
-13% of alunmi have Ph.D.s, a higher figure then most, if not all Ivies
-12% or 1/8 are Presidents or Chairman
-Only two Ivies have a higher percentage of alumni in Who’s Who
-Only four of the eleven Ivies and Little Ivies have a higher score on the Medical College Admissions test
-Three-fourths of the graduates go on to graduate or professional school within five years of graduation from Wabash
-Amazing merit and financial aid</p>