<p>does it actually matter where i go. will my future be tainted if i go to one rather than the other. </p>
<p>source businessweek:</p>
<p>FSU:
59.00% received their first job offer by graduation
41.00% did not report having received an offer </p>
<p>UCF:
39.00% received their first job offer by graduation, 30% on a report i saw from the school.</p>
<p>Am i doomed for failure if i go to UCF? Some people have told me it makes no difference where you go undergrad.</p>
<p>Those people are morons. No-name schools don't make it into Ivy graduate schools(in great numbers).</p>
<p>great. im a failure.</p>
<p>UF or DEATH </p>
<p>weeeee</p>
<p>I'm not saying you are a failure. Both of those schools are great schools. I just recommend get into the top undergrad school you can.</p>
<p>i dont have moneyy or the gradessss</p>
<p>TheMK,</p>
<p>in actuality, it doesn't matter where you go to undergrad when you want to go to grad school. Most grad school admissions are based on GPA and gmat/mcat/lsat/whatever grad school test there may be.</p>
<p>the fact that smarter people tend to go to better schools - and therefore most likely do better on the standardized tests - will generally mean they get into better grad schools.</p>
<p>but don't be mislead, if you have a solid GPA and rockstar test scores, you can go to great grad schools - from any undergraduate school.</p>
<p>yes jags, but even a 3.3 at harvard would own a 4.0 at bob jones. prestige>rest</p>
<p>i think its more dependent on the GMAT score</p>
<p>No contest.</p>
<p>FSU over UCF any day.</p>
<p>FSU's College of Business is #25 of all Publics nationally per USNews. The Risk and Insurance program is #7 nationally, for example. FSU's a Tier 1 school, while UCF is Tier 4.</p>
<p>my heart says ucf but the rankings say fsu. lol</p>
<p>i should probably visit first =D</p>
<p>Don't get so wrapped up in the rankings. Go to the school where you think you will get the best combined student life and education.</p>
<p>I had alot of friends who went to UF and got into some top MBA programs.</p>
<p>What do you want to study?</p>
<p>In general, get the best education possible at the least amount of debt where you'll be happy.</p>
<p>There's a cause-and-effect question in this whole issue. Are people smart because they went to a top school, or did they go to a top school because they were smart? People should be careful about claiming that smart students have a better chance of getting into Ivy grad programs BECAUSE they went to top colleges, as opposed to a lot of top students get into Ivy grad schools, and coincidentally a lot of top students go to top undergrad schools.</p>
<p>Either way, there are lots of very successful people who went to less-than-top schools for undergrad AND grad degrees, or didn't even go to grad school. There would seem to be a very small % of things one is excluded from without a tip-top undergrad degree...like the elite NYC financial institutions, and some country clubs, and maybe it would be toughER getting into some top grad programs. So if you go to UCF and then get an MBA at, say, U of Georgia, Texas A&M, or Penn State, you can still have a wonderful life making good money.</p>
<p>In general, I would agree with you TG even with lesser colleges than UCF. But in this case, with dollar cost being about equal or maybe cheaper in Tallahassee than Orlando, I'd suggest the better school (FSU) - especially when there is a significant difference in the quality of the business school (assuming that's what the interest is). FSU's got a # 43 overall ug cob rating compared to the UCF # ~143 cob overall rating. That's a lot more bang for the buck.</p>
<p>However, if he'd be miserable anywhere but UCF, then by all means I'd suggest leaving the FSU slot to someone who wants to go there.</p>
<p>themk,</p>
<p>a 1.0 at harvard is better than a 4.0 at bob jones. bob jones isn't accredited.</p>
<p>but rest assured, 2 candidates - 1 from harvard with a 3.3 and one from say st. bonaventure with a 4.0, all other things equal, harvard < st. bonaventure.</p>
<p>gpa + gmat > prestige</p>
<p>;-)</p>
<p>tourguide,</p>
<p>i think the point i'm trying to make is a smart person will be successful regardless of where he went to school. many studies show this. HOWEVER, smart people, who score better on SATs and do better in school tend to go to better schools. Therefore, proportionally, most students at top graduate schools went to top undergraduate schools - because there just are more gifted students at top schools.. </p>
<p>But that doesn't explain why there are a handful of students from "lesser quality" schools that go to top graduate schools. the reason why you have people from "lesser" undergraduate schools at top graduate universities is because almost every school has smart people who would fit in academically at places like Yale and Princeton. They just are in less numbers as you go to a less selective school.</p>
<p>I agree with posts 16, 17, 18.</p>
<p>thanks everyone! i need to go visit ASAP =D</p>
<p>UF OR DEATH =D</p>