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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh, not all schools are equal.

A top honors degree from third rate undergrad may not get you into prestigious graduate school, especially if their programs suck in your field of interest.[/quote]

This. The undergraduate reputation/prestige correlates to the grad schools where the students go. 
Example: the top 5 grad schools from   NC state, UGA —good but not top flagships—are similar level schools. 
The top 5 grad schools coming out of Duke? MIT, Duke, Harvard, Columbia, NYU. Ivies are similar: the top 5 is almost always including the ivy itself, MIT, Harvard, Stanford  and another top school. 
PhDs which are fully paid /funded including stipends of $45k or so are about half of grad programs coming out of top schools, whereas at non elite /nonflagships of the ones not going to professional school, less than 10% go to phD, the rest are masters. Most masters, outside of elite programs at ivies or others, are not funded at all. Guess who gets into the funded masters. 
Careers after phD or masters is highly dependent on the prestiges of program. Getting into the most prestigious grad programs heavily correlates with attending a top20 private or a top15 LAC or a top15Public.  Those 50 schools boost . The ivy/plus group of 12 schools give the biggest boost. 
Undergrad matters. [/quote]

BA from Arizona State, fully funded PhD from Chicago here.[/quote]

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