<p>I've heard pretty bad stories about how limiting CSUs can be versus UCs.</p>
<p>You need to be more specific. What do you mean by “kill your graduate classes”?</p>
<p>I don’t know how you can be more specific? It implies having difficulty getting into top 50 programs </p>
<p>Yes I would assume so because if you weren’t able to get into UC’s it probably means you can’t compete with UC students. If you have pretty good grades but are being compared with a UC student applicant with similar or slightly worse grades, I think they would go with the UC student. I think thats why my dad threatens me that if I don’t get good grades I will go to a CSU…</p>
<p>@boxlogoboy What if you COULD go to an UC but you choose not to because of price, distance, and the language requirement?</p>
<p>Honestly, I have no clue about grad school. I’m just speculating on what seems logical. I don’t think grad schools would be able to check if you were admitted into UC’s. If I were you I’d get amazing grades and intern at a noteworthy place, depending on your major of course. </p>
<p>@boxlogoboy I have a 3.66 so far… Not sure how amazing that is. I’m majoring in a business admin major (mixture of accounting and finance) and I’ve got a skilled labor job (property manager)</p>
<p>I think I understand now. You mean “kill your graduate chances”. That is very different than what you wrote which is confusing since you can’t take any graduate classes until you are in graduate school and then who cares where you did your undergraduate work.</p>
<p>To answer your question, however, graduate programs are generally not hung up on where you did your undergraduate work. You can get an excellent undergraduate education at CSU schools and you can get a lousy education at a UC. It all depends on what you put into your education and how you take advantage of your opportunities.</p>
<p>Thanks X-ray yeah, I think auto correct goofed up what I was trying to say</p>
<p>What kind of grad school are you contemplating?</p>
<p>OP, I edited your post title to reflect what you meant.</p>
<p>The short answer is no, it is not true.</p>
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<p>This is not true. There are many reasons why a student would go to a CSU instead of a UC. We can’t assume that a student at a CSU didn’t get into the UCs - they may have been admitted to every single UC but chose a CSU instead for whatever reason. Students may choose to go to a CSU because of cost, or proximity to home, the availability of a major they want, or to continue an ongoing relationship with a professor there. I would not automatically assume that a student at a CSU wasn’t admitted to any UCs and therefore couldn’t compete with the students at a UC. Even if that was the case, the student might have been a late bloomer or may have had a skill set that disadvantaged him in high school but would make him an excellent graduate student.</p>
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<p>There’s no way for the grad committee to know, but ultimately it’s irrelevant. Your high school record doesn’t matter at all to graduate schools.</p>
<p>With this said, I agree with @xraymancs - where you went to undergrad is not really going to matter much. What you do there matters a whole lot more.</p>