Graduate Admission

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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Hello all ,
When applying as a graduate student to Stanford , CS major.
Will the school name , I finish my B.S from, matter to the admission ?
If no , What are the other factors ?

Thank you ,

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@azizas Obviously test scores and grades will matter at your school. I asked a Stanford Graduate Professor (not in CS but nonetheless gave good advice) and she said that professor recs are extremely important along with the research that you did in undergrad (along with your published articles).

Undergrad matters in these ways:

  1. If you have 2 4.0’s, the 4.0 that attended the better undergrad will win out because a 4.0 from a community college is different from a 4.0 from Harvard let’s say. A similar GPA in a harder school will have much more weight than a comparable GPA from a community college, for example. When I mean comparable, probably a .2 difference between the 2.
  2. Good universities have good and respected professors. If you go to a bad undergrad (bad is relatively speaking), then the professors there are less known than the ones at top-tier schools like the ivies. If you can actually work with and publish articles with a respected professor and have him write a glowing recommendation letter, it will be a HUGE boost in terms of admissions.

I got all this info from someone I know who is a Stanford Graduate Professor and she said she worked in admissions for a couple of years. I myself don’t know much about grad school admissions.