Top 10 Universities

[goldenboy8784]

<p>

@Sam Lee

As far as “post-graduate outcome”, you don’t have data showing acceptances vs applications. All you got are just some numbers of grads at, say, HLS…etc. You can’t really make any conclusion out of it. Duke has the second largest med school applicants among the top-20 schools (behind the much larger Cornell); it seems to be the most preprofessional school in the sense that more of them seem to be prelaws or premeds when compared to other peers while the ones that seek employment primarily go into finance/consulting. I think the lack of great engineering, the study hard/play hard culture, the strength in bio-related fields, and the lack of other specialty (non-business) schools just draw more students into medicine, law, or business. The apprent “success” has more to do with the sheer number and orientation of the student body than anything else.

Sam, Duke is no more or no less pre-professional than Northwestern or any other peer private schools. Let me use data to back up my claim.</p>

<p>ABA Top Law School Applicant Feeders
<a href=“http://www.lsac.org/lsacresources/data/pdfs/top-240-feeder-schools.pdf[/url]”>http://www.lsac.org/lsacresources/data/pdfs/top-240-feeder-schools.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
Duke: 292
Northwestern: 280</p>

<p>AAMC Top Med School Applicant Feeders
<a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/321456/data/2012factstable2-6.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/321456/data/2012factstable2-6.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
Duke: 360
Northwestern: 279</p>

<p>Duke and NU have nearly an identical number of law school applicants but Duke is far better represented at the top law schools. Duke does have about ~30% more med school applicants than NU annually but Duke is represented proportially in greater numbers at the top 10-15 medical schools.</p>

<p>For whatever reason, NU is not quite in the same league as Duke with regards to placement in professional schools. Since the students are supposedly of equal academic caliber and socioeconomic makeup, I can only conclude that a Duke degree is held in greater esteem by elite professional programs.</p>