The real problem here is that all the data is dated and biased towards the past. This "college transitions" site harvested its data off of LinkedIn without respect to year. E.g., for the law school ranking, it looked at 8,000 graduates of top law schools on LinkedIn and recorded their undergrad. The large majority of those people are going to have gone to law school prior to this decade which means they went to college even earlier than that. Med school presumably is even worse. So this is actually best at telling you where the best school to have gone to over the past 40 years is. But it offers much less insight about the best feeder schools *right now.* Of course, patterns can take time to change, but I certainly wouldn't be making college decisions based in large part on which schools were most effective at getting Gen Xers into law and medical school.

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Anonymous wrote:The colleges listed are at the top because they get first pick of high school students who are most likely to be successful, not because of anything the colleges did differently than colleges that are a bit less selective.

I agree. I'd also like to know how many of these people were legacy or had connections to the schools and/or employers. I think it would be interesting to pull those people out of the data and then see how the schools do. Otherwise, it just seems like the same old same old.

So then non-t20 schools here would be the real deal for average people

Anonymous wrote:The colleges listed are at the top because they get first pick of high school students who are most likely to be successful, not because of anything the colleges did differently than colleges that are a bit less selective.

I agree. I'd also like to know how many of these people were legacy or had connections to the schools and/or employers. I think it would be interesting to pull those people out of the data and then see how the schools do. Otherwise, it just seems like the same old same old.

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Anonymous wrote:Per capita lists are BS.

They allow schools of different sizes to be compared. Very useful.

You’ll notice that almost no public universities are listed. That in itself is a red flag.

Why? Lots of public universities send graduates off to med school...to good med schools...... the frequency is lower do they are not on this particular list.

Anonymous wrote:Most of the top private schools don’t offer the depth and breadth of the top publics. There are thousand of enrolled students who have a absolutely no interest in any of these areas mentioned.

Interested in theater, music, gender study?

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Anonymous wrote:Per capita lists are BS.

They allow schools of different sizes to be compared. Very useful.

You’ll notice that almost no public universities are listed. That in itself is a red flag.

Anonymous wrote:Per capita lists are BS.

They allow schools of different sizes to be compared. Very useful.

Anonymous wrote:With the overall school ranking, these were the secondary reference we used for picking a school list

That's smart, and the trends on which schools are the best start becoming clearer. There are only 10 colleges I see consistently at the top of rankings and in the employment numbers: Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Yale, UPenn, Columbia, Dartmouth, Williams. Of course the priorities change depending on the specific field of interest, but these 10 schools just do well in all fields.

Most of the top private schools don’t offer the depth and breadth of the top publics. There are thousand of enrolled students who have a absolutely no interest in any of these areas mentioned.

Anonymous wrote:Per capita lists are BS.

How? Otherwise a lot of the great smaller schools like Williams and Amherst would have their placement prowess completely overlooked

Anonymous wrote:Per capita lists are BS.

Why Sensei?

The empoyers are the ones who would make the most unbiased objective no bullshit evaluation of the education outcome.

With the overall school ranking, these were the secondary reference we used for picking a school list

Per capita lists are BS.

Sus.