Preferred Undergrad School?

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@Saugus

Woah. Cornell only sent 14? Princeton sent 26 and has 2.5 times fewer students.</p>

<p>So, roughly speaking, does going to Princeton multiply your chances by 5 as opposed to if you had gone to Cornell?

I’m actually surprised that the Princeton number is that low; it must have been a down year at HBS for the Tigers. Princeton is a much stronger feeder into elite Wall Street/Consulting jobs than Cornell, as much as I would hate to admit it to a future Cornellian. The answer to your question: probably.</p>

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@JHS

I suspect the difference is that Duke attracts a higher percentage of students who want to go to business school than Georgetown. Lots of people at Georgetown want to work in the federal government (including, of course, the State Department and the Foreign Service). An MBA isn’t an especially useful degree for that. There are students at Duke with similar ambitions, of course, but far fewer of them than at Georgetown. Conversely, Duke has more people who want to work for investment banks and hedge funds.

You know, I rarely disagree with anything you say on these boards, but I"ll have to make an exception here. The Georgetown student body is just as inclined to pursue careers in the financial industry as the Duke student body if not to a greater extent. The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown enrolls about 1,350 students which means that each graduating class has between 300-350 students. A vast majority of these Georgetown grads will seek an MBA sometime down the line in addition to a select bunch of students from SFS and the CAS school there. There are probably at least 500 Georgetown students from each graduating class for whom an MBA is most likely in the cards. At Duke, typically a quarter of the undergraduate student body pursues careers in consulting and finance. If we assume all 400 of these students will look to get an MBA down the line along with maybe a 100 or a 150 more students who did something entirely different after their undergraduate studies, that would give us a figure that’s pretty close to the Georgetown one.</p>

<p>The real difference between the student bodies at Duke and Georgetown is the interest level in medical school as well as government as you aptly point out. Twice as many Dukies apply to medical school according to the link below and I wouldn’t be surprised if at least twice as many Hoyas vied for careers in think thanks, the foreign service, NGOs, and the like.</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/86042/table2.html[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/86042/table2.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;