<p>Re # 10, actually the top ten schools where future Life sciences PhDs got their start are as follows:</p>
<h1>undergrad of life sciences doctoral recipents 2002-2011</h1>
<p>UC Berkeley 1,132
Cornell 1,085
UW Madison 854
UC Davis 817
Penn State 754
UIUC 745
UCLA 686
UCSD 673
U Michigan 655
U florida 641
<a href=“nsf.gov - NCSES Baccalaureate Origins of U.S.-trained S&E Doctorate Recipients - US National Science Foundation (NSF)”>http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf13323/</a></p>
<h1>10 <em>might</em> be a list of degree recipients divided by everyone graduating from an institution, regardless of their major, aptitude, interest, and alternative opportunities. Larger schools often have wider ranges of all of these, hence are guaranteed to have smaller proportions for this reason alone. But the data shows they produce more future life sciences Phds, derived obviously from the subset of their populations that are so qualified and disposed.</h1>
<p>IMO it’s ok to post lists as a pecentage. But if you do so you should say that, because it isn’t obvious. And identify the denominator specifically (Biology majors at the school? Or just anybody in the whole place!). Lest you mislead.</p>