<p>MBAs only care about your work experience. You should READ more on this forum before posting all these questions.</p>
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Well, if most applicants come from elite schools, have 3.7+gpas, almost perfect GREs and tons of high quality research, wouldn't it come down to where the applicant went to? Not saying that this is the case of course.
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<p>No, it will come down to their interview, research goals, quality of research experience and personal statement. Typically, if you make it past the first round then your UG location won't matter too much. </p>
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So I've been in a research lab here at Stanford for a year now and I absolutely love it and couldn't possibly think of changing to someone else's lab but the thing is my professor is brand spanking new. I mean last year was his first year as a professor and though quite honestly he's amazingly smart and all I don't know if he has the name recognition that some of the other profs in my department do. He does seem to know quite a few professors from other universities and he frequently goes to conferences but seeing as everyone here keeps on stressing the importance of your LOR and the fact that his LOR will be my main one I'm getting a bit worried...
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<p>As long as you get quality research experience and you keep good relations with your proff (for a rec), you'll be fine. Besides, if you love it, why change?</p>
<p>I don't think LORs are as big a deal as everyone makes them out to be. Everyone always says they have exceptional LORs and I'm sure they all read out more or less the same.</p>
<p>That might be true for teachers writing recommendations back in high school, but it's not true for college professors. Here at my grad school I had a significantly lower GPA than most of my classmates, lower GRE scores, one middle-author publication in a very specific field in a journal that practically nobody reads (I'm the only person published in the journal with Scott either as a first or last name), but I was told during interviews that I was "very highly recommended" from the people that wrote my recommendations. I've also had professors tell me it was "very difficult" to write recommendations for a few of my classmates.</p>
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As long as you get quality research experience and you keep good relations with your proff (for a rec), you'll be fine. Besides, if you love it, why change?
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Oh there's no way I'm going to. I was just wondering if it makes much of a difference (one of my friends joined a more senior faculty for that reason but I'm not the kind of guy that plans so carefully. I chose the faculty member I liked best)</p>