How do you think it impacts the decision if someone is confident that they're going to go to graduate school? Does the undergraduate institution matter less?
How do you think it impacts the decision if someone is confident that they're going to go to graduate school? Does the undergraduate institution matter less?
It might actually matter more, depending on the specifics. it really does matter which graduate school you go to, and that graduate school is going to care which undergrad you went to.
Note that there is an angle where there might be a university with a specific prominent individual professor or similar to give you that prestige and networking leg up into grad school without the university being otherwise super elite - plenty of flagship state schools will be top tier in a handful of specific specialities.
How do you think it impacts the decision if someone is confident that they're going to go to graduate school? Does the undergraduate institution matter less?
It might actually matter more, depending on the specifics. it really does matter which graduate school you go to, and that graduate school is going to care which undergrad you went to.
Note that there is an angle where there might be a university with a specific prominent individual professor or similar to give you that prestige and networking leg up into grad school without the university being otherwise super elite - plenty of flagship state schools will be top tier in a handful of specific specialities.