Do grad schools look closely at undergrad schools/programs?

MWolf
Fri, 12 Apr 2019 22:29:30 +0000

Yes and no. What you accomplish is generally more important. However, they do want to know that you are academically prepared. Great accomplishments at a decent physics department is better than decent accomplishments at a great physics department. Grad schools want to know whether you can succeed at research, and that you have the right background, or at least, can catch up in a year or so (my graduate program in Ecology accepted a couple of Psychology majors who did very well).