<p>I am going to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill next year as an international studies major. Chapel HIll is a great school, and financially, socially, and academically a good choice. However, I plan on pursuing this degree in grad school. My question is, if I continue to have a good academic record, how will the fact that UNC is not necessarily 'the best' for international relations effect getting into a top IR grad school? I have been told that how you handle your college experience academically in undergrad is weighed more importantly than the prestige of the school in that are, is this true? Will the fact that UNC is a great school be enough?</p>
<p>Yes............................................</p>
<p>umm...yes to which question</p>
<p>there are countless, verrry long threads about going to schools without the national 'name/prestige' for undergrad and then going to the top schools for grad schools. search for them.
but in a nutshell- scores of people from lower ranked schools get into top grad schools all the time. and unc is NOT a low ranking school!</p>
<p>I think you missed his question... but yes, my understanding is that how you perform as an undergraduate is more important than whether the school has a top program for your area of study (as long as you take a challenging curriculum, the best offered to you). because what you'd study as an undergraduate would be fairly generic wherever you go. If you show you're an intelligent, hard worker and you get the internships/research whatever you need, that's what grad schools will care the most about.</p>