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[quote=Anonymous]Re “not a typical area of research”.   OTOH, kids’ interests often change during college.  OTOH, I wouldn’t encourage DC to go to a school where none of the faculty were doing research in his/her subfield (and that was the case with some LACs wrt my DC’s focus).  OTOOH, one can get a bachelors in a discipline and do PhD work in a subfield that he or she had little (if any) exposure to as an undergrad.

My general take is the school should be a promising place to study the particular thing that DC is currently excited about and that it should also support DC’s adjacent interests (or DC’s Plan B or C, which might be unrelated).  DC may still end up doing none of the above, but in that case, it’s because, after exploring existing interests, s/he found something even better to do!

Re the prestige question and academia.  My sense is network is  more important than institutional prestige (and this can be another dimension of the subfield question).  Basically, recs matter a lot for grad school admissions and it helps when the profs at the grad school know (or know the work of) the profs at the undergrad school who wrote the recs.  And people tend to know/have worked with/been advised by other scholars in their subfield.[/quote]

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