<p>Sam,</p>
<p>1) Your arguments are ridiculous. I’ll leave it to the readers of this posting to decide whether someone would choose Northwestern Law (not even top 10)over Harvard and Yale Law (1 and 2). My guess, above 95% of those getting into Yale or Harvard Law and NU choose the first two schools. </p>
<p>2) Lazard? Great one BOUTIQUE bank recruits at NU and not Dartmouth. BUT all 6/7 “prestige banks” like Goldman and Lehman recruit at Dartmouth yet only 4/7 recruit at Northwestern. Once again, a totally flawed argument.</p>
<p>3) Great econ? Unless you are in the group of 500 or so people pursuing a PhD then this stat is irrelevant. Its grad placement that matter as well as recruiting, not graduate econ dept ranks. If that’s the case a Michigan econ degree is better than a Yale econ degree, and guess what…its not.</p>
<p>In the end firms want to say “my consultants went to X prestige school,” and more top firms and grad schools as well as every ranking out there thinks Dartmouth has a SLIGHTLY better reputation at the undergraduate level than Northwestern.</p>