<p>There is information, you know, on future graduate school productivity.
<a href=“http://web.reed.edu/ir/phd.html[/url]”>http://web.reed.edu/ir/phd.html</a></p>
<p>Swarthmore breaks the top ten in eight separate areas. Stanford? exactly once, and that in medical sciences. If grad placement is your sole criteria (it shouldn’t be), the two aren’t the same, and they aren’t close - Stanford is a much inferior institution.</p>