<p>Are there any undergrads that have ever went to a
graduate school at the level of Stanford or MIT etc. after
graduating from a UCSC undergrad major?</p>
<p>Me thinks UCSC is a prestigious graduate school in numerous areas in its own right.</p>
<p>Yes, all the time. As long as you have a high GPA, high test scores, and good extra-curriculars such as internships and leadership positions you can get in anywhere.</p>
<p>I actually have a stats professor at Cornell who did his undergrad in stats and math at UCSC and then went to Princeton for grad. There are students who have gotten into great schools out of UCSC, but literally every university has tons of those students. Maybe UCSC’s numbers in grads who go to top tier might not be high relative to universities such as UCB or UCLA, but it still has students who do.</p>
<p>I graduated from UCSC and initially I was planning on law school and was accepted at Michigan and NYU (I wanted to do public interest law). I deferred and ended up taking the GMAT and went got my MBA from Columbia (and was accepted into Stanford, Wharton, Berkeley/Haas, and Stern/NYU).</p>
<p>I can say, UCSC has an excellent track record of placing smart grads in top schools. Professionally and academically.</p>