<p>I'm currently attending Rutgers University (ranked #60 nationally, #23 public nationally). I have a very good GPA, and because of scholarships and because my mom works there, I am paying hardly a dime.
My concern however is for graduate school. How much will the fact that I'm attending Rutgers versus NYU or some other place affect where I can get in graduate school?
I hope to go to an ivy league graduate school, does anyone know any stats on the possibility of going from #60 to #4?</p>
<p>If you are doing exceptionally well as an undergraduate at Rutgers and are partcipating "outside" of school as well, say if you wanted to pursue medicial school (research opportunities would be an example of outside of school). Also, again referring to medicial school, it depends a lot on how well you do on the MCATs. But overall, if you are really doing well you have an excellent shot at a good ivy graduate school. My friend's brother is currently at Columbia Medicial school and he graduated from rutgers with a 3.9 gpa and very high MCAT scores, and this is not a rare case just to be praised, it occurs often as long as the student is determined.</p>
<p>An average student at Yale would have lower chances than an exceptional student student at University of [insert state name here].</p>
<p>Two of my father's boss's daughters (close connection, huh?) graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park (currently ranked 55th nationally).</p>
<p>I'm about 90% sure both of them are currently working on their MD/PhDs.</p>
<p>Quite honestly, it doesn't matter where you go... if you're working on an MD/PhD, holy crap it's amazing. I think one of them is at Stanford.... the other one.... I think (this one less sure) at UChicago. Both got full scholarships.</p>
<p>My husband got his undergraduate degree from a state university ranked lower than either of those mentioned above (Rutgers or UMCP). He went on to a Ph.D. program at a university that is not only Ivy League (which doesn't matter) but also among the top ten in his particular field (which most definitely does matter). </p>
<p>With an outstanding undergraduate record, it can be done.</p>
<p>I'm about to graduate from a very small, often unheard of LAC and I was accepted to all of the grad schools I applied to (for Landscape Arch). I'll be attending a top 10 (Cornell #7) school in the fall. </p>
<p>It is possible, and it happens more often than you think!</p>