<p>When considering admission to top grad schools like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, which university would be more preferable by them? U of t, lower ivies or u of chicago?</p>
<p>Looking forward to any replies.</p>
<p>Depends on your field.</p>
<p>If you’re looking at grad school for CS, then probably UT or Cornell as an Ivy.</p>
<p>If you’re looking to get an MBA, Chicago has a great undergrad business program. Same with economics.</p>
<p>“Chicago has a great undergrad business program”</p>
<p>Oh really?? since when???
there is NO UG business program at Chicago.</p>
<p>Chicago has CCIB, which is a great undergrad business program. It’s not a business school, but it’s a business program that nets a lot of students a great entrance point into business and finance at the world’s top companies. Where have you been?</p>
<p>You’re starting with the wrong premise. If you don’t know what field you want to pursue, having the goal of “omg prestigious name grad school” is coming at it from entirely the wrong angle.</p>
<p>^ Depends. My own experience is that the tippy top graduate programs in math admit their graduate students almost exclusively from the top 20 universities in the subject (by US News graduate ranking). Does it matter which strong university you are attend? Probably not. Of course, different universities would prepare you for different specialties; for example, undergraduate math majors at Michigan are more likely to go into combinatorics or algebraic geometry, while undergraduates at Austin are likely strong in differential geometry and analysis. </p>
<p>I don’t know what “U of T” is, but since I saw in another thread that you are an Asian student and also applying to Asian universities, I wanted to throw the following out there: You will find it MUCH easier to apply to American graduate programs from an American university than from an Asian university. In math at least, many graduate programs seem to be rather suspicious of applicants from China/Taiwan/Hong Kong. (The single most important part of a graduate application in math are letters of recommendation. There’s a concern that too many Asian students compose their letters themselves, which makes them useless as an admissions tool.)</p>
<p>sorry for being vague, “u of t”=university of toronto, just too lazy to type it all out.</p>
<p>Do you mean that top grad schools for math in US don’t prefer asian schools.
what about in fields other than math, for instance, economics or engineering?</p>
<p>"“u of t”=university of toronto"</p>
<p>Scratch what I said about UT and Computer Science. Thought you were referring to University of Texas.</p>