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[quote=Anonymous]I attended a large land grant university for undergraduate because I was a fist-gen college student from a working class background, and they gave me a large scholarship back between prestigious SLACs were doing much for kids like me.

I went on to a prestigious graduate program, where I TAd and then taught.

Here's what I can say - the quality/educational bona fides of the professors are largely identical, with the exception of celebrity professors that undergrads wouldn't see much of anyway (I'm thinking of folks here like Professor Gates, Professor Chomsky, or Professor West).

As a PP noted, the PhD market is so tight that there aren't Ivy League posts for every Ivy League PhD, so they end up all over the country in all types of schools.

Peer group? Yes, the baseline peer group is going to be higher at a "great" university, but a motivate student will find an equally qualified/interested/ambitious peer group at almost any school.

The biggest difference that I would offer is "customer service." I was successful at my undergraduate institution because I was good at self-advocacy, had excellent executive function, did not require specific supports, and sought out mentors.

A big state school does not care if you make it through, whereas a smaller or "better" school is going to take care to keep kids from falling through the cracks. [/quote]

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