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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ I don't think you will ever get it. Yes, it is basic probability and statistics. Your data points, the number of graduates enrolled in YLS, and the total number of undergraduates from each undergraduate school, are valid and important. They mean as such as what the metrics are -- the number of graduates enrolled in YLS, and the size of graduates from those colleges.

What you failed to understand is that you divided those two numbers to invent a third metrics and used it to compare "the likelihood of end up at YLS" from each school. That's wrong. Washington U's graduates are NOT 2.5 X as likely to end up at Yale Law as a UVA graduate.[/quote]

Sorry.  Based on the data from that publication, a Yale graduate is 34X as likely to end up at YLS as a UVA graduate.  A Harvard graduate is 26X as likely to end up at YLS as a UVA graduate.  A Princeton graduate is 19X as likely to end up at YLS as a UVA graduate . . .

If 50% of UVA graduates go on to graduate school and 25% of GMU graduates go on to graduate school, a UVA graduate is 2X as likely to end up at graduate school . . .

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