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<p>Both getting into and kindling the desire to attend graduate school. One important factor in choosing an undergraduate school for those interested in doing higher studies eventually is whether or not the given school is the right environment for them to grow to love what they love more and more. I think that while we hear of all sorts of folks talking about how they chose not to attend so and so HYP school because “They hated how the campus looked, my goodness…” a lot of future researchers can just hate how a program is structured, or more positively, love how another is structured more. For instance, one reason to love Caltech is the close intellectual community it builds, where everyone has to learn something pretty nontrivial about several different fields in the core. Whatever gets one ticking, that is very important.</p>