<p>I don’t think your premise is correct. There was a Wall Street Journal study last year that ranked Williams fifth (behind HYP, and one other) in <em>professional</em> school placement (business, law, medicine), not grad schools in general. And even diehard Williams lovers saw the apparent flaws in the study, which was based on which graduates attended one of a rather subjectively assembled set of “the best” professional schools. There were some very glaring omissions from “the best” in each category, which if I recall correctly were limited to only five (in each category) for some reason. Again, going from memory, Stanford Law and UPenn Medical were not considered among “the best” in their category, which is plainly silly. But the larger point is, the study said nothing at all of the many graduate students in the liberal arts.</p>