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A Private School Education = NOT WORTH IT |
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Law School- Go with top schools. |
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01/28/2000 |
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Goldman hired 60+ harvard grads last year? Buddy, time to stop hitting the crack pipe. The entire analyst class is only about 80 people, and somehow I fail to believe that Yale, Princeton, Stanford and others combined have to compete for the other 20 spots. Goldman might have interviewed 60 people at Harvard. That means they probably hired about 10. The school with the largest contingent at Goldman is Wharton which gets about 15-18 people in every year.The other banks' hiring policies are about the same. Salomon has 19 interview schedules at Wharton this year, whereas it only reserves 6 for Harvard and 4-5 for the other Ivies.
As for Yale Law.that 25% rate is bullshit. About 300 apply there from harvard every year and roughly 50-60 get accepted. That translates to about 17-20 percent acceptance rate. The point of this whole message is, Harvard is a good school but it is hardly the Atlantis you crack it up to be. |
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Top Law Schools, All-time USNWR ranking:
#1 Yale
#2 Harvard
#3 Stanford, Chicago, others
Representation of undergraduates at Yale Law School (#1):
Yale - 83
Harvard - 61
Stanford - 30
Princeton - 22
All others--below 20 (fewer than 5 students/year)
Representation* of undergraduates at Harvard Law School (#2):
Harvard - 217
Yale - 99
Stanford - 80
Duke - 63
Princeton - 58
Cornell - 54
Dartmouth - 54
UC Berkeley - 51
UPenn - 46
Brown - 43
All other schools: fewer than 40 (10/year).
Note: Columbia College had 31
enrolled at Harvard Law.
Note: Harvard Law School has about 3 times as many students as Yale Law
School, and is sometimes seen as a "safety school" to Yale Law. Yale Law is
the only Law School in the nation to have an admissions committee made up
of professors at the school itself.
If we take into account the fact that Yale has a smaller student body than
either Harvard and Stanford, it seems clear it does pretty well in terms of
placement into the #1 law school in the country. If you look at Harvard Law
school's class, you will see that Harvard is most represented school with
Yale placing second. Again, Yale is ahead of Stanford, even though Stanford
has a larger student body.
As far as other Ivy League standings, the other Ivies obviously do not do
as well as Yale and Harvard, but this is understandable because their
entering student body does not have the SAT average of Yale and Harvard,
and is not as distinguished in terms of accomplishments in high school.
As to the standings of various Ivy League institutions, I would give the
ranking:
1. Harvard and Yale, 3. Princeton, 4. Brown and Dartmouth, 6. Columbia and
Cornell, 8. UPenn
*http://www.law.harvard.edu/Admissions/JD_Admissions/colleges.htm
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