<p>slipper, </p>
<p>As I said earlier, you have to have #applicants vs #admits vs GPA for at least multiple years to do comparison. You have none of those. If you say the list shows Dartmouth has better placement, you pretty much assume that the number of applicants from both schools to HY are the same and that their GPA/LSAT profiles are similar for both schools. Therefore, it’s the name that makes the difference. LOL!</p>
<p>Berkeley’s prelaw placement stats:
<a href=“http://career.berkeley.edu/Law/lawStats.stm[/url]”>http://career.berkeley.edu/Law/lawStats.stm</a></p>
<p>Tuft’s prelaw placement stats:
<a href=“Homepage | AS&E Students”>Homepage | AS&E Students;
<p>Cornell’s prelaw placement stats:
<a href=“Career Services | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University”>Career Services | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University;
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<li><p>Even Berkeley is 4x bigger, the number of prelaws are roughly the same for both schools (246 for Tufts vs 259 for Berkeley for 2005)!!! Assume anything about the number of applicants is baseless.</p></li>
<li><p>While the number of prelaws are roughly the same, Berkeley has significantly more prelaws applying to UCLA, Berkeley, and Stanford than Tufts. A lot more Cornellians apply to NYU, Columbia, Cornell (feeding itself), Georgetown, and even Boston University and Boston College than schools eslewhere. Northwestern and Chicago, more prestigious than the Boston ones, aren’t even on their “school with over 120 applicants” list. Don’t tell me people wouldn’t choose Chicago over Boston! Out of the 250 Berkeley pre-laws, around 60 or so applied to Stanford; however, out of the 700+ Cornellian applicants, less than 120 applied. If geographical location doesn’t matter like you suggested, Cornell should have something like 160 or 170 applying to Stanford. Yield has nothing to do with #applicants. I was talking about the latter and said nothing about the former. Yet, you put words into my mouth. The stats suggest geographical location plays a bigger role than you think (you actually implied earlier it played no role, LOL!). Looks like my intuition is on target while yours isn’t.</p></li>
<li><p>2/3 of the applicants are actually Cornell alums. This further complicates any comparison. The alums are probably the ones more affected by locations and proximity–circle of friends, family, connections…etc. can be huge factors. </p></li>
<li><p>Berkeley stats fluctuated greatly from one year to the next for HLS admission. In 2004, 12 were accepted to HLS and 9 matriculated but the year before, only 3 were accepted and 2 matriculated! The yield also had wide range–between 40%+ (yes, people do turn down Harvard) to 90%. If people want to judge Berkeley based on HLS enrollment, I guess they can get pretty different ideas about it, depending on what year they look at. But it’s still the same Berkeley!</p></li>
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<p>I can probably find a lot more but I think that’s enough to make my point. :)</p>