<p>yeah, i do understand that a person from a lesser-ranked school who has a high GPA would be very competitive for top grad schools…but if a top grad school had to choose between 2 students who had the same qualifications - suppose one student is from a low ranked school and the other is from a top 30 school - which would the grad school pick?
they’d most likely pick the student at the higher ranked school.
this is what i’m trying to take into consideration when i’m choosing a college to attend in my undergrad years. i know that GPA plays a huge role, but i think that the name of the school also makes an impression on the grad school. </p>
<p>casa atreides - you said that it’d be wiser to pick a school that has better departmental achievement in my interest than pick a school for overall prestige. but would you agree that a neuroscience major at georgetown (i haven’t heard much about georgetown’s neuroscience department, that’s why i’m using it in this example) might get accepted into a better grad school than a neuroscience major at pitt? (supposing that the two students had same qualifications).</p>
<p>i know that i shouldn’t just choose a college simply for prestige, but it seems to me that the prestigious college is the one that would bring in more reward at the end.</p>