<p>Goldenboy, I am not sure how accurate the extrapolation of the Poets and Quants data is. There was a recent survey conducted by Businessweek. Like Poets and Quants, it is also a relatively unscientific count of where graduate students at top 10 MBA programs completed their undergraduate studies. Out of almost 2,400 responses (approximately 25% of MBA students enrolled in those elite programs) from those top 10 MBA programs, below were the 10 most represented undergraduate institutions:</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Michigan 67 grads</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania 64 grads</li>
<li>Harvard University 62 grads</li>
<li>Cornell University 61 grads</li>
<li>University of Virginia 54 grads</li>
<li>Duke University 52 grads</li>
<li>UC Berkeley 49 grads</li>
<li>Stanford University 46 grads</li>
<li>Princeton University 42 grads</li>
<li>Northwestern University 40 grads</li>
</ol>
<p>The above is not surprising considering the fact that all of those universities, save Princeton, have top 10 MBA programs (according to Businessweek), and therefore, will perform favorably in such a survey. Either way, schools like Emory, Vanderbilt and WUSTL will not do as well as schools like Cornell, Duke, Michigan and Northwestern. I agree that this is in part thanks to the professional placement of undergraduates coming out of those universities, which in turn, yields a higher rate of acceptances into top MBA programs.</p>
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