<p>when applying for GRAD school, does the prestige of the school where you did your REUs at matter? For you guys who got into prestigious engineering grad schools from average undergrad schools, where did you do your REUs at?</p>
<p>I am not in engineering but in math there is definitely a correlation between the prestige of the REU and grad school outcomes. However, I doubt that there’s a cause-and-effect relationship. I suspect that the same credentials (glowing letters of recommendation, advanced coursework, awards, etc) help with admission to both REUs and grad schools.</p>
<p>I’d also like to mention that the most selective REUs are not necessarily at the most prestigious universities. The single most prestigious math REU might be at the University of Minnesota - Duluth.</p>
<p>what do you mean by advanced coursework? Do undergrad students usually take graduate courses?</p>
<p>Also my career counselor told me that generally prestigious engineering programs (top 10) schools look/advise schools to/from other top 10 schools, and slots could be limited for others</p>
<p>In certain programs, particularly math and science, it’s pretty common for undergrads to take graduate courses.</p>
<p>does this include engineers? cause I think a lot of us have a lot of courseload to have extra room for grad classes.</p>