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<p>Another thing to note…even in the same university, at the undergrad level, different departments differ. My experience (at MIT) was that there were certain departments where the powers that be were willing to toss you to the side and let you sink, unless you were in the top quarter of their students, and other departments where, to quote a friend who was in one of those departments, “they love you like a fuzzy bunny.” Most (including my own) fell somewhere in the middle.</p>