Importance of undergraduate school in graduate admissions

<p>captain scruffy wrote:</p>

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<p>haha! to be honest - my thoughts exactly!!</p>

<p>this has been the funniest tangent on any thread yet...</p>

<p>but i'll go one better:</p>

<p>i got a joke. want to hear it?</p>

<p>it goes like this:</p>

<p>caltech cheerleading.</p>

<p>(to our dear mollie: no offense at all - it's just the association of "girl" and "MIT" to the average joe is almost an oxymoron...)</p>

<p>Yeah but the average Joe isn't aware of the fact that MIT has a pretty darn close to 50:50 male/female ratio. I think when I was thinking about going there for undergrad, it was maybe 46:54?</p>