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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't think where you went to undergrad has a big effect on where you get accepted to grad school??[/quote]

Sure, but it's like the public vs. private HS/college admissions debate -- sometimes coming from the more prestigious school can put you at an admissions disadvantage.

Arguably, in my own case, my "big 3" undergrad degree kept me out of the same big 3's PhD program (the person who would have been my dissertation advisor felt strongly that I'd be better off working with his old advisor than with him, in part because I'd already BTDT during undergrad and in part because he thought his advisor had more pull than he did on the job market) and another big 3's JD program (I was competing against another woman with virtually identical credentials but a slightly better GPA and the program was small enough that it wouldn't have made sense to take both of us).

Of course you could also argue it the other way since I got into my big 3's JD program and the other big 3's PhD program, LOL!  But had I gone public (in this case UC Berkeley) and emerged with the same grades and LSAT/GRE scores, odds are I'd had pretty similar grad school admissions results.  And saved my parents lots of money.

No regrets (on their part or my own), I'm just saying that if you see the goal as to the minimize the cost of obtaining the credential that maximizes earning power, it could certainly be economically rational for some families not to send their kid to the best college s/he got admitted to.[/quote]

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