<p>I was recently admitted to the Honors College at ASU with the Presidential scholarship. I was excited to get in and immediately paid my enrollment deposit, etc. This weekend, however, I unexpectedly received admission UCLA and have now begun to wonder if I should reconsider my decision - even if it will be a huge strain for me to afford any of the UCs.</p>
<p>I guess my question is, is it worth it to graduate with very little debt from Barrett so I can afford a better grad school? Will it be possible for me to go to grad school somewhere comparable to UCLA, Stanford or even an Ivy with a 4.0 from ASU? Do graduate admission committees (and even employers) recognize how Barrett is different from the rest of Arizona State or is it simply skimmed over like most other honors colleges?</p>
<p>Though I have never personally experienced applying to grad school from Barrett, maybe this info from the information packet given during information sessions will give you something to think about. </p>
<p>Fall 09-Spring 10 </p>
<p>Medical schools
-Columbia
-Duke
-Harvard
-Johns Hopkins
-Mayo Medical School
-Stanford
-U of Arizona
-U of Virginia
-U of Washington</p>
<p>Law Schools
-Arizona State University
-Cornell
-George Washington
-Harvard
-Lewis & Clark
-Pepperdine
-Stanford
-Vanderbilt
-William & Mary</p>
<p>Graduate Schools
Mphil in Education at Cambridge University
MA in Public Health at Yale University
MA in Russian studies at Stanford University
MS in Accountancy at Notre Dame University
MBA at Harvard Business School
PhD in Chemistry at UC-Berkeley
PhD in Neuroscience at Stanford
PhD in Engineering at MIT
PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University</p>
<p>Granted, these are probably some of the best students that the are advertising, but if you are that talented, I don’t see why you would any more trouble getting into a good grad school. </p>
<p>*These are representative samples. </p>
<p>After Graduation plans</p>
<p>38%-Graduate school
15%-Law School
13%-Med School
6%-MBA (I’ve always wondered about this number. Why are these people going straight to MBA?)
28%-Other than Grad/ Professional School</p>
<p>Yeah, I can remember seeing that list somewhere. Do you go to Barrett? I don’t know much about graduate admissions, but I guess I’m just curious to see how a degree from the school will be perceived in four years - especially if I move back to the East Coast for graduate school, where ASU doesn’t necessarily have the best academic reputation.</p>