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[quote=Anonymous]I went to a small liberal arts college and did sort of run out of courses before I graduated, and wished I'd gone to a bigger place, but loved my friends and the teaching in the classes I did take and got good grades and went on to get very good scholarships at extremely competitive grads schools and did both PhD and post doc with well recognized institutions. Taught for a while, did gov't policy for a while, liked publishing and mentoring students/staff better than teaching, so think I'll stick with the latter All of which is to say I know this world, if not as intimately as people who've been there their entire careers. In my observation, for jobs and grad school, grades are the biggest thing, followed by school reputation for grad school and alumni network in the relevant job market for jobs. (My little liberal arts school isn't super well known outside this area, but is recognized as pretty good within it and I got a call from an alumnae whom I"d never met before with a job offer within two weeks of graduation. I turned it down because I already had a good grad school offer and plan but found it most reassuring.) Kids are pretty good, when visiting, at figuring out the type of school where they'll be happiest and a 3.8 in underwater basket weaving really is better than lackluster grades and ability in a field in which they'll struggle. By and large, in my experience, folks are better and more adaptable at finding ways to find jobs doing what they're good at than finding even mainstream ones in in-demand fields where their ability and interest isn't so solid.[/quote]
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