Too much of a jump in presitge?

Graduate School
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<p>Im a senior in high school who wants to be a US History teacher. I was trying to plan out my course of action and was thinking of going to one of the following:</p>

<p>Umass Lowell
Bridgewater State College
Salem State College
Framingham State College
Worcester State College</p>

<p>The problem is for graduate school I would like to go to a graduate school at somewhere like:
Clark University
Boston College
Brandeis
Boston University
Northeastern </p>

<p>If I graduate from one of the state colleges/universites in good academic standing will it still be too much of a jump in prestige to be accepted from
one of the schools on the graduate school list? Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>If your plan is to become a history teacher then an MA degree from any of the mentioned places sholdn't be a big problem. IN many disciplines, education being one, MA programs are often not as selective as undergraduate programs at the same college.</p>

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<p>No problem at all making that jump. Keep in mind that for teaching history there are a few options in getting a master's degree. There would be an M.A. from the history department, some sort of master's in education from the education department (M.Ed. or M.A.in Ed, or something like that), or a master's of arts in teaching (M.A.T.) which would usually be somewhere in between those two.</p>

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<p>if you know what you want to major in, then choose an undergrad with a good reputation in that department. That will count for alot in your graduate admissions. A no...it is not too big of a jump :)</p>

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<p>There no such thing as too big a jump in prestige, as long as it's going up. A big jump down would be another matter...</p>

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<p>Also, see this thread: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=220875%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=220875&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>