Why the Ivies, Stanford, and MIT are Different from Other Top Schools

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Those are pretty bad examples, dude. Brown and Dartmouth are known for being fantastic places for undergrad research, and Columbia biomed is near the top of its field and engineering is no slouch either.</p>

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<p>Actually, it seems the biggest undergraduate feeder for Harvard graduate schools is…Harvard College. But in general, going to the same institution for undergrad and grad is usually frowned upon in elite circles as [Intellectual</a> inbreeding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_inbreeding]Intellectual”>Intellectual inbreeding - Wikipedia) Moreover there is a selection bias in that people who attend an Amherst, Swarthmore, etc are more likely to have a graduate school plan in mind whereas students of universities are relatively more predisposed to going directly into the workforce.</p>