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<p>Medical and law school care more about your GPA and test scores (MCAT or LSAT) than your undergraduate school.</p>
<p>PhD programs tend to care about your undergraduate school in terms of strength in major, in terms of producing graduates who make good PhD students. Large state flagships, even those with relatively low entry standards, are often looked upon favorably, because some top students in their states do go there, graduate, and become PhD students.</p>
<p>Job recruiting does tend to have a regional bias, so you may have to apply more aggressively if you are seeking an out-of-area job. A few types of jobs are very school-prestige-conscious (e.g. investment banking or management consulting), but region of your school is not especially relevant.</p>
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<p>You do not want large undergraduate debt, especially if you want to go to expensive medical school or major in a low-paying field like biology (would it be correct to assume that your biologist parents do not have a lot of money to contribute to your college?).</p>
<p>Some southern schools do have <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-16.html#post15557250[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-16.html#post15557250</a> .</p>