Is Clark University respected by top graduate schools?

[fiddlegirl593]

<p>The question title says it all.
I am trying to decide where to go to college, and I got 1/2 tuition scholarship to Clark University. I'm just wondering if anyone can assure me that it is a decent school (I want to study psychology) and that top graduate schools respect Clark as a school?</p>

[polarscribe]

<p>The name of your school doesn’t matter to graduate schools. What matters are your professor recommendations and your research experience. Clark is a perfectly good school.</p>

[Ghostt]

<p>Clark is very strong in psychology, which I assume you already know. It’s one of its strongest departments together with geography. Simply put, Clark is very well respected in psychology and you will have no trouble getting into grad school as long as your credentials are up to snuff.</p>

<p>From Wikipedia:</p>

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G. Stanley Hall was the first president of the university. He was the founder of the American Psychological Association, and earned the first Ph.D. in psychology in the United States at Harvard. Clark has played a prominent role in the development of psychology as a distinguished discipline in the United States ever since. It was the location for Sigmund Freud’s famous “Clark Lectures” in 1909, introducing psychoanalysis to the US. The university celebrated the centennial of the visit in October 2009.

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In recent years, Clark has been noted especially for its geography and psychology departments, with the latter having a distinctive, if increasingly unfashionable “humanistic” orientation (humanistic psychology).

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<p>Happy now?</p>

[fiddlegirl593]

<p>Yes, thank you both for the advice.</p>