Berkeley accepting Berkeley grads.

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<p>Thanks for setting me straight, JHS. :)</p>

<p>I found it on the website:
<a href=“http://cheme.berkeley.edu/grad_info/faq.php[/url]”>http://cheme.berkeley.edu/grad_info/faq.php&lt;/a&gt;

Q. My undergraduate degree is in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. I have such happy, fond memories of the department that I cannot bear the thought of pursuing graduate studies away from Cal. Can I go to Berkeley for graduate school, too?</p>

<p>A. Although nearly all of the best chemical engineers are Berkeley graduates, this department, like most other top chemical engineering departments, feels strongly that its’ undergraduates are better served by pursuing graduate studies in a new and different environment. Thus, unless you have obtained a degree elsewhere or have substantial industrial experience since you graduated from Berkeley, we will not admit you to the department for graduate work.

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Mollie tells me that MIT is the exception in all this, since it accepts its own undergraduates to its PhD programs and hires its own PhDs, but most institutions do not like to do this.

Yes, this matches an experience I’ve seen. A family friend’s daughter went to MIT for undergrad physics…she was accepted and encouraged by her MIT mentor/prof to attend for the PhD program. But ultimately, she decided she wanted to come back to California and is now at Stanford.</p>