<p>It does not matter where you go to undergrad in terms of getting into grad school. Using statistics to show otherwise is misleading because there is obviously a different average academic level between the top schools and lower tier safety schools.</p>
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<p>Would you, then, agree with the logically following but nonetheless illogical conclusion that students of equal abilities and work ethics who apply to top graduate programs in physics have the same chance, even if one, for instance, graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the other from Princeton? Of course one’s undergraduate school makes a difference.</p>
<p>The phy dept. was the most important reason I applied to Princeton as my top choice :)</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> University - Scientists find an equation for materials innovation](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/70/39A36/index.xml?section=topstories]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/70/39A36/index.xml?section=topstories)</p>
<p>Speaking of physics . . .</p>
<p>A major breakthrough in physics/materials science was just made by Prof. Emily Carter at Princeton.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s worth it.</p>
<p>What? The innovation or physics degree? :O</p>