Why cornell??? Any answers???

oldfort
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:40:41 +0000

http://www.inpathways.net/top50feeder.pdf from the first post.

Ranking on colleges for getting into Yale Med, Chicago Business and all those other elite business, medical and law schools. Below, our list of the top 50 “feeder schools,” based on our count of how many of their alumni started this fall at 15 select grad programs (see “Behind the Rankings”). The rankings are based on the number of students a college sends to a grad school divided by the college’s class size—our Feeder Score.

Upenn has 2785 class size, 153 attending
Cornell has 3565 class size, 115 attending

This survey is only for business, medical and law schools.
Cornell is more of a pre-professional school than most top tier schools. It has 7 schools within Cornell. I would think there is a large percentage of Cornell students who do not go to law or medical schools, just like Penn. There is a lot of diversity within Cornell student body. It is not surprising that a lot more students from HPY that go on to law or medical schools. If you look at CalTech, a top school, has 2.81% attending. Cornell has Hotel and AEM. Penn has nursing and Wharton. Cornell’s medical admittance is around 70%, which is way above national average. Based on the survey, I don’t see how anyone can draw the conclusion that Cornell’s students who want to go to business, medical and law schools do not do as well as other students from top tier schools. My kid is working and she may not go to graduate school some day.