Hi CC!
I am currently a high school student, and I was just curious about the chances of getting accepted into the same school you studied your undergraduate degree in.
I have heard mixed signals of it being either lower or higher; which one is it and why?
If some of your answers are specific to a subject then please specify.
It totally depends on the field. I’ve known people who got their MDs/PhDs/JDs and MBAs at the same school they got their Bachelor’s – everything from law and literature to medicine, physics and business. But IN MANY cases, schools like to mix it up when it comes to graduate work, feeling students who come from other universities bring fresh perspectives and make the graduate departments more “worldly,” well-rounded and diverse.
My D’s bf is a current PhD student. His UG school did not permit graduate applications from current students in his discipline, while other departments did permit it.
You probably wouldn’t want to go to graduate school at the same institution that you went to for undergrad. You should develop a different set of mentors and widen your contacts in the field, for the sake of better post-grad prospects.
Depends on the school, the program etc. I would pick the best undergrad place for you and take it from there.
Depends on the school or type of program.
The view that students should go to different schools for undergraduate and graduate study appears to be mainly held in some PhD programs (as opposed to professional schools like MD, JD, MBA, etc.).
I think it is more common in professional programs (Medicine, Law) than academic programs (Ph.D. in English, History, etc.)
^And some med schools (like Tulane, and I believe WashU) give strong admissions preference to their own undergrads (not sure how this is for other professional schools).