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[quote=Anonymous]Some of the smaller schools do have impressive numbers in biology. For smaller fields such as Math and Stat, some of the highly ranked smaller schools are sending just 3-5 students per year. It's tricky to make generalizations with such small sample sizes.  A few individual decisions can really sway the percentages.

You do, however, also want to ask where these students end up for their PhDs. Academic jobs and desirable post-docs disproportionately go to students from Top 20 programs. Industry and government employers are less finicky, but it's always easier from a good school.

It's also of note that those numbers also tell you most people in US PhD programs don't come from SLACs. (There were only a couple of SLAC grads in my program, which was pretty big). Many come from universities with their own PhD programs, where undergrads have worked in labs alongside PIs, post-docs, and grad students. These labs have huge grants and state of the art equipment. You will want to make sure that the department at a SLAC can offer something equivalent.[/quote]

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