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[quote=Anonymous]My grad school (STEM PhD) class had one student from Brown and another from W&M.  I think both schools undergrad programs are similarly ranked in the specific department that we went to school in (good but not top 5).  Hands down the Brown student was much, much better prepared for grad school courses.  I suspect some of this was due to higher caliber classmates who challenged her, and due to a very different standard of teaching.

That said, they are both now similarly successful having gone in very different career directions.

I think a different PP had it right when they said that outside of HYP + Stanford, MIT, CalTech it's probably a bit of a crapshoot as to whether it's worth it to go to an elite school when you have a solid public option.  But it matters a lot whether a school is a good fit for you and whether it's important to you to have peers who are as smart/smarter than you.

FWIW, of those two classmates, the Brown grad's family did sacrifice financially to send her there.  She considers it well worth it.[/quote]

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