<p>The same way, say someone who has a bachelor’s degree from an elite school like Berkeley, Stanford, Oxford, etc has an edge going to an elite Ph.D or other kinds of grad school like in…well Berkeley, Stanford, Oxford, etc.</p>
<p>Or would it be a little less?</p>
<p>It’s your GPA, your GRE score, and the letters of recommendations that you get that count most when it comes to applying for grad school. It doesn’t matter where you went to school as an undergrad, if you have a high GPA, a high GRE score, and stellar letters of rec, you’ll have a high chance of getting into high-ranking grad schools (btw, UC Davis is also an excellent grad school, especially when it comes to their professional schools (esp. veterinary medicine)).</p>
<p>So even if I went to UC Berkeley and got a gpa of 3.2 with moderate GREs and lots of letters of recommendation it would be the same as going to Davis with the same grades and scores and letters right?</p>
<p>Yes. For example, one of my roommates is graduating with a B.S. in Psychology, and she said that one of her classmates (also a Psych major and also graduating) got into USC and UCLA for grad school. My roommate hasn’t applied for grad school yet, but she wants to apply for USC (because they have the best Occupational Therapy grad program in CA, apparently) and she has a high GPA (don’t know exactly what, but I know she’s gotten As in a majority of her classes).</p>
<p>@Sabotenderizer since you are the type that needs reassurance… Please allow me to do so as a Parent. It is about what you make of yourself. It is about how good you are and not about how good the school is. I personally know of students from UCD go to grad School at Stanford. I also know a brilliant student who went to UCD as a Math Major and didn’t make it. </p>
<p>Not all Cal or Stanford students end up in Grad schools let alone Elite ones. In a nutshell… It is what YOU do over the next 4 years that count.</p>