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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
There are some fields that where you go undergrad matters. I was looking through where the professors went at the school my son will likely be going to and what shocked me was that practically all of them went, for grad and undergrad, to the same few schools: Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Caltech, etc.

If you want to go into academia, names matter.

Fair point! But keep in mind that professors, especially at the better schools, will invariably have a doctorate or at the least a masters degree. So it becomes more important where one does the post-graduate degree.[/quote]

I promise you that where you went to graduate school matters to hiring committees filling professor slots, but they do not care, at all (nor are they likely even aware of) about where you went to undergrad. Grad school admissions committees care about where you went to college, but not always in a way that favors Ivies.

One teeny exception is if you are applying for a professor position at a SLAC and you only went to big state schools.  I've been told that if that's the case, you need to sell the fact that you "understand" the SLAC philosophy. And, there may be a very small edge to people with Ivy backgrounds if you want to teach at a school like Amherst or Williams, where parents want their precious children taught by "the best." But, that's purely icing -- your grad degree is the only one that really truly matters.

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I suspect that undergrad matters in academia primarily because it's schools like Harvard where faculty urge some of their best students to consider academia rather than law or medicine.[/quote]

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