Should you turn down a school to save it for grad school?

[ucbalumnus]

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@jkeil911

I can’t imagine who the “they” is who told him this but unless it was the Director of Graduate Studies and the application review board of the future, what they said is of no consequence.

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<p>Is the student a chemical engineering major? If so, Berkeley’s chemical engineering department says on its web site that it subscribes to the idea that students should do BS and PhD study at different universities.</p>

<p><a href=“http://cheme.berkeley.edu/grad_info/faq.php”>http://cheme.berkeley.edu/grad_info/faq.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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@Berkeley chemical engineering department

A. Although nearly all of the best chemical engineers are Berkeley graduates, this department, like most other top chemical engineering departments, feels strongly that its undergraduates are better served by pursuing graduate studies in a new and different environment. Thus, unless you have obtained a degree elsewhere or have substantial industrial experience since you graduated from Berkeley, we will not admit you to the department for graduate work.

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<p>Regarding a question on the UCLA forum, I’m not sure how interest in sports or wearing shorts and flip-flops is either nerdy or non-nerdy.</p>