<p>Minimum of 4,000 students… does this mean that even very large schools are under consideration?</p>
<p>Remember, find the safety first. Depending on your state of residency, there may be in-state public universities where he is an automatic admit.</p>
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<p>Some PhD programs are school-prestige-conscious about the undergraduate origins of their PhD students, but such notions are major-specific, do not necessarily correlate to overall school-prestige, may vary from one department to the next, and are likely to be based on the department’s own experience with PhD students from various undergraduate schools.</p>