<p>Anyone from BC undergrad ever go to Ivies for grad?</p>
<p>Some of my friends here have siblings at Harvard who graduated from BC (Med School & MBA) and one has a sister at Columbia. I think you can find out more on this subject from the individual academic departments. Search the BC site or email them directly to find out where BC grads go to pursue their graduate studies.</p>
<p>I will look around! Should anyone find anything, let me know!</p>
<p>…i haven’t been able to find much</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s advertised specifically like “Hey guess what folks, the Philosophy Department has just sent fifty students to Harvard Grad. Yeah, I know, none of them wants to stay here.” Academia is a world of pride, I don’t think most college departments would advertise that their competitors have just received its best and brightest. Furthermore, If I got into Harvard Law, I would tell my professors and friends, but I doubt the History department, my major, would post that up on their website. Most departments only brag about the number of fellowships (i.e. Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, Truman, Goldwater, etc) their students have won. They are more a meaningful indicator of the academic strength of a department or university. For example, Reed College in Oregon might ranked 40th in USNews, but it had had more Rhodes scholars than all the other schools above it COMBINED! Prestigious fellowships are much more harder to get than getting into top grad schools. There are only 40 Rhodes scholars get selected a year while a thousand students get admitted to Harvard Law.</p>
<p>If you want to find out whether a school is represented at top grad schools, then go to the top grad schools’ websites and see if their grad students are from that school.</p>
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Reddune, Reed has had 3 Rhodes winners in the past 30 years. You sure about your numbers?</p>
<p>Also, in the US, there are 32 Rhodes per year, not 40. </p>
<p>Personally, I don’t think counting fellowship winners says much about a department or a college. These national level honors give a measure of the absolute top of the academic scale. They say nothing about the other 99%.</p>
<p>I went to BC and then on to a top doctoral program</p>
<p>“Reed has had 3 Rhodes winners in the past 30 years. You sure about your numbers?”</p>
<p>It has 31 since the creation of the Rhodes Scholarship.
links:
[REED</a> COLLEGE RHODES SCHOLARS](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/rhodesawards.html]REED”>Rhodes Scholars - Institutional Research - Reed College)</p>
<p>“Reed College in Oregon might ranked 40th in USNews, but it had had more Rhodes scholars than all the other schools above it COMBINED”</p>
<p>Nevertheless, this was a rash statement. I forgot to include the like of the Little Three, Pomona, Wellesley, etc. </p>
<p>You are right about the Rhodes Scholar being 32 US students a year. I guess I must have jumbled the number 40 from Reed’s former ranking of 40th on the USNews (now 54th) to the number of Rhodes Scholarships.</p>
<p>My daughter was a premed biochem major at BC and is now in the 8 year MD/PhD program at Yale School of Medicine.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>