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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think you can go wrong with UVA that's in the same class as Yale and Cambridge - and above Princeton. The step difference in these rankings are minuscule. No one's ever said Chicago is "better" than Yale,  Cambridge, or Princeton because of the slightly higher ranking. [/quote]

The Wall Street data was posted to disprove an idiotic assertion made by a lying poster that UChicago is not a feeder school for Wall Street Firms.  That's all. Reading too much into that data beyond that is not productive.

Personally, as someone interested in STEM, I would look at a metric which often gets overlooked when evaluating institutions. What percentage of its bachelors degree holders go on to earn PhD's? This in some sense conveys whether the school is doing a good job in preparing its students for graduate studies. Here is the list published by the NSF which lists the Top 50 U.S. baccalaureate-origin institutions of 2002–11 Science & Engineering doctorate recipients, ranked by institutional-yield ratio (which allows us to compare small colleges and large universities). So For example 35% of Caltech BS degree holders land up getting a PhD, which is pretty impressive, but what is surprising is how well the LAC's prepare students for advanced studies compared to some of the research universities. If I had the money to spend on a private school, I would start with this list. What this list shows is that while state schools like UC Berkeley may be great grad schools, they may not be good at preparing their undergrads to be competitive enough to get into PhD programs, but if you don't care about that and only want to think it terms of costs, the flagship state schools may be fantastic options for instate students.

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