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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The above poster doesn't have the whole picture. At some big companies hiring for lucrative positions, firms have guideposts about taking the top 50% of students at the top 10 schools, top 25 at the top 50, and take only the top of the class from the rest.  [/quote]

I have the whole picture.  No firm takes 50% of the students in a specific major at a T10 school.  Very few firms only hire from T20 schools.  Kids at VaTech/UMD/GMU all get jobs at FAANG.  And not everyone wants to work there.  Go to a "non-MIT" school in CS and you will still get an amazing job, and it might even be FAANG except you didn't go into major debt to do so.  If not, you will still have a great job.  Not sure why everyone is so obsessed with working at the "top firms" immediately, or ever really.  [/quote]

Where you go for undergrad can make a difference when you apply to graduate programs. Not saying they need to go to MIT but something to keep in mind, not everyone is done after 4 years.[/quote]

And go look at MIT/CalTech/Berkley/CMU/other T25 schools and see where their PHD candidates went to undergrad.  Many come from smaller, much lesser known schools.  In fact, you can shine in undergrad, many advantages to being top dog at a school of 5-8K, you can do research with the profs as undergrads, they truly get to know you so can write amazing recommendations.  Yes, many come from T25 schools, but only about 50%.  And that is to be expected because the nature of a kid who got into a T25 school is that they are driven, hard working and almost always achieve their goals.  But plenty of kids from other schools go to T25 for grad school. [/quote]

You should not got to a school of 5-8k and expect that you will be able to do research with a professor. Schools that small do not have graduate students and the professors are not expected, and realistically cannot because of teaching commitments, conduct research. At R1 universities T25 or otherwise, professors are expected to have research programs.[/quote]

OMG, get out of your bubble.  Plenty of 5-8K undergrad schools with grad students and Research.  All 3 of my kids attended one and each had several other acceptances from similar schools. 
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Plenty of non-R1 universities have research opportunities.  In fact, at these smaller schools, the students who want to do research get to do meaningful research, many times because there are not as many grad students involved.  So the smart, highly motivated, dedicated undergrads get to use these opportunities.  They are more than just grunt workers in a professor's lab---the prof actually works with them, knows them and can write glowing recommendations for their PHD program applications.

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