Second chance at Ivy (graduate School)

juillet
Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:04:43 +0000

The admission rates for HBS are about 10-12% every year. Wharton has a 14-20% admission rate for their class. I couldn’t find this information for Yale, but I’m assuming it’s similar. However, I’m also going to guess that the business school classes to these schools are somewhat self-selecting - Wharton states that 75-80% of their applicants are qualified to attend the school. So that doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily easier to get in, just that people who don’t actually have the credentials don’t apply (whereas they do in undergrad).

Yale Law has a 6-7% admissions rate, Harvard law has a 13% admissions rate, and Penn’s is 14%.

Grad school is a huge range; it depends on the program. Some very small PhD programs may have rates similar to undergrad - especially in popular fields like English and history - whereas some programs like pure math or physics may have higher rates of admission, but again, because the pool is self-selecting.

However, I will say that it’s strange that you have an aim to go to three specific Ivies. Do you even know what you want to study in graduate school yet? Those places may not even have what you eventually want to study, or they may not be the best programs in your field. There are other great graduate schools that may be non-Ivy private (MIT, Caltech, and Carnegie Mellon are great for tech and science degrees, for example) and there are many publics that have great programs in many fields (Wisconsin and Michigan come to mind, as do Washington, UCLA, and Berkeley). I think you should focus on figuring out what you want to do first, and then find out where the top programs in the field are.