ChemE Graduate Admission Chances

af213
Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:05:13 +0000

I attend a mid-sized public university, Research I, and we have a 4.0 graduate every three to four years or so. What made me seek out some sort of informal evaluation here is that practically all our high-GPA grads in recent years went straight to industry for whatever reason, and very few of them ended up in a graduate program other than this one, so it’s made me a little apprehensive about the reputation of my undergraduate program in graduate admissions offices.

I’d rather not give the name of my school here, but it boils down to a question about whether graduate admissions committees take the prestige of the undergraduate institution seriously into account.

Thank you for the replies so far.