<p>I plan on going to graduate school one day, but I'm concerned over the quality of education and disparities between different schools. How much different would it be if I went to Stanford vs Umichigan vs Northwestern vs Uchicago? Would I get similar results? Thanks for the feedback. This is important to me</p>
<p>If you pick the most rigorous courses, in a logical sequence, with clear goals, and do extraordinarily well in each of them, and suitably augment your coursework with research, etc. then you’ll get similar results.</p>
<p>By “graduate school”, do you mean a PhD program, or professional school like for MD or JD?</p>
<p>For PhD programs, strength of major department can matter, in terms of courses available and their content, research opportunities with faculty whose recommendations will be respected by PhD program admissions, and historical performance of graduates as PhD students. However, it may not be too obvious to a high school senior which school’s department actually is stronger in these respects (and a school’s general prestige based on admissions selectivity and correlated factors may have little to do with the strength of any given department).</p>
<p>All 4 schools are excellent. There wouldn’t be a difference between them. Details may matter if you’re looking at universities ranked in the 50’s vs. ranked in the 150’s, for instance.</p>
<p>No, it doesn’t matter where you go for undergraduate. College is what you make of it, and as long as you would put equal effort into learning and absorbing material, and you get yourself involved (clubs/research/etc), you will have equally great experiences</p>