Alma Mater for Doctorate?

juillet
Tue, 25 Aug 2015 05:05:50 +0000

1. Stereotypes are stereotypes. Honestly, I find it kind of amusing that Harvard is considered a rich white male school…and Yale isn’t? They both have similar demographic makeups, and both are going to be teeming with privileged white students. I also don’t think Yale is any less (or more) focused on their graduate schools and research than Harvard. Both of them are elite research universities; if you are worried about attending a school where the professors are more concerned with their research than the education of their undergrad students, you shouldn’t attend either of them.

2. If you want to go to graduate school - particularly a PhD - a senior thesis shouldn’t sound intimidating to you. It should sound exciting!

I agree, though, that as a high school junior you are thinking about this far too early. Don’t select your undergrad college based upon where you think you might go to grad school. Pick based on your interests and fit; the rest will fall into place later.