<p>Venkat - From what I remember when I was a grad student, Penn’s undergrad is a very pre-professional, status oriented place. Combine this with a very successful and professionally ambitious student body, and Penn’s rank for being a feeder school should be higher. UPenn’s rank would probably be different if you accounted for a wider range of grad schools. </p>
<p>For example, Penn’s law school placement is great:</p>
<p>[Career</a> Services, University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/gradprof/law/law_stats.html]Career”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/gradprof/law/law_stats.html)</p>
<p>What one should notice, though, is that Penn is VERY east coast-centric. There is little placement in the midwest, and some (but not an overwhelming amount) on the west coast. I’m assuming if you took out Michigan and Chicago for law and replaced them with Georgetown and NYU, and then took out UCSF for med and replaced it with Penn Med, you’d see a greatly improved ranking. </p>
<p>One note, I have several friends in law school and going the law firm route, and there is still a sizable gap between Penn Law and Chicago Law. Penn has a great corporate law firm placement, but beyond that, Chicago Law has a generally stronger reputation, stronger faculty, and better overall placement for its graduates (when accounting for say, law clerkships with judges and the like). In the law world from what I know, Chicago, Columbia, and NYU are generally seen as peers, and Penn Law is a step down with Michigan and Virginia Law (and probably Berkeley) as its immediate peers.</p>