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Can you imagine if Berkeley had a great undergrad and a pretty good grad? The situation would be a lot worse.
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<p>Oh, I don't know about that. Seems to me that that is what Princeton has done, and Princeton isn't doing too shabbily. There is a reason why, when people talk about elite undergrad programs, they talk about HYPSM, and not HY*B*SM. Grad-school is obviously a different story, and many of the best PhD candidates prefer to go to Berkeley rather than Princeton. But the point is, there is an example of a school doing extremely well by prioritizing undergrad over grad. It's clearly not impossible.</p>