<p>I know almost nothing about ‘graduate school’, so this may be a stupid question, but bear with me…</p>
<p>It looks like a lot of the top colleges have fairly strict admissions standards for graduate school. From what i’ve seen, it sounds as though graduating from a college with a bachelor’s also does not guarantee a person a place in that college’s graduate school either. True?</p>
<p>If this is the case, how often does that happen: where a student attends a prominent college, earns a bachelors, and then gets denied admission into grad school at that college due to only moderate grades or whatever other reason? </p>
<p>How would the degree be handled in that case? Would a masters at X college be the only thing a person would present for a job interview, or would a bachelors from Y college also be included in that?</p>
<p>True. You have to apply to graduate schools separately. I
It depends on the school–most schools avoid accepting graduate students who did undergrad at that same school. It’s different for some places…Harvard Law, for example, but often, schools try to avoid this “intellectual incest.”</p>
<p>On your resume, you’d list both the bachelor’s from Y and the master’s from X, but the master’s is more important, from what I’ve heard.</p>
<p>It happens more often than you think because the criteria for grad school is different from undergrad. Quirkly is right, “intellectual incest” or inbreeding is the main reason that it does not happen, with the exception of law school, where it is not unusual to find a large number of students from the home institution. But then again, I know a lot of people I went to grad school with at NYU who got masters and then got denied at the law school.</p>
<p>for example, if you are looking to go into a PhD program these are the factors that are taken into consideration:</p>
<p>GRE scores
Grades
Letters of recommendation (which are coded +/- )
Prior research experience (Yes =1/ No=0 )
Personal statement
Program you are looking to be admitted to as they like to match professors up with students for reseach.</p>
<p>If you are looking at an MBA program, work experience counts for a lot and a senior manager would be admitted before a clerical. As a matter
of fact, many colleges have Executive MBA programs that require students have so many years of managerial experience to even be considered.</p>