<p>Yale: 5,300 undergrads
Cornell: 13,500 undergrads</p>
<p>So it depends what the statistic is measuring (but 4 is still an exaggeration either way).</p>
<p>In the past decade, about 15% of Yale graduates have earned PhD’s, while the figure for Cornell is about 10%. This may just be due to differences in the student body’s goals.</p>