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AdmissionsConsultants
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Posted - 09/26/2003 :  08:20:39  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The Wall Street Journal released a ranking of colleges in today’s edition. Importance was placed on the ‘feeder schools’ with a track record of placing its alumni into the top business, law, and medical schools.

The top 10 are:

1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Princeton
4. Stanford
5. Williams
6. Duke
7. Dartmouth
8. MIT
9. Amherst
10. Swarthmore

We have three comments about the methodology behind these rankings:

1. The data is only for this past year's placements.
2. The data only covers 15 schools: the WSJ’s top 5 business, medical, and law schools.
3. If this ranking gains enough popularity, a perverse incentive could be created for the top graduate programs to admit a larger number of their own undergraduate alumni.

On a final note, we are very proud that one of our consultants, a former admissions officer at Harvard Law School, was recognized for his expertise in law school admissions and quoted in this article.

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nightfox
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USA
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Posted - 01/15/2005 :  22:46:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I know this the following question's answer is somewhat obvious, but is it impossible to obtain a 3.5+ at these 10 named colleges?
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y82benji
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USA
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Posted - 01/20/2005 :  18:22:07  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It is not at all impossible to get above a 3.5 GPA at those schools and many talented students do so. I know approximately 20 people that have attended those schools and finished with GPAs above 3.7.
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