Desert_Ibex

I can understand why there are such dire career warnings about most graduate programs in the humanities. And I can understand why even people who really want to teach might be dissuaded from entering a PhD program right now. My question though is whether this holds true for Top 5 or Top 10 programs. Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, etc., seem to have very good placement rates (even for T-T jobs). If you go to one of these schools and perform reasonably well, how much greater is your chance of immediately getting a decent (potentially T-T) job? Also, even in this economy, if you go to a Top 5 program and seem somewhat normal at interviews, would it be standard to have multiple offers from various schools in various regions? In other words, are all the misgivings about the humanities career market also true for these sorts of elite programs?