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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only about 5-10% of students go on to graduate school.  Most start work right away.  Whether the college name matters or not has nothing to do with graduate programs. [/quote]

It matters for students who do plan for graduate or professional school: the undergrad college name matters the most to this group of students, and they are not rare at top colleges. More than half the graduates from most ivy/plus schools and top LACs go on to grad or professional school, either immediately or after a couple of years, and looking at the rosters of top echelon of MD, MBA, JD, and fully-funded phD programs one will find that T30s/T15LACs undergrads are far overrepresented. I am not speaking of high cost terminal masters that lead nowhere for some mid-level professions, I mean the top degrees. These top-echelon grad/prof schools are over-represented in academic tenure positions, top-hospital MD positions, top research,  top industry(jobs that require top-program MBA, phDEngineers). It is not just Big Law that cares about undergrad. For students who are interested in aiming for the top, undergrad very much matters. There are students who want to try for the top: they need to realize that path is much easier from top undergrad programs, because they do not have to be the very top of their school, they just have to be top 1/3 to top 1/2, or even below average depending on the goal and the field. These students would be wise to look at the JD and MD-feeder lists, the phD feeder lists, etc. [/quote]

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