<p>I want to go to Emory and major in Math/CS. They aren’t very high ranked in this, and I was wondering if this would matter for job placement if I plan on going to grad school after.</p>
<p>If you’re planning on going to medical school (as your username suggests), then your undergraduate school would hardly matter at all.</p>
<p>If you plan to become a Software Engineer at a top IT company in California, I’d say, school connection matters to some degree. You would want to go to Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Caltech, Harvard, Princeton or CMU. Heck, you may rather want to go to Santa Clara than Emory for West Coast placements.</p>
<p>A company that travels to recruit CS majors will probably stop at Georgia Tech before Emory.</p>
<p>Of course, companies also recruit locally, so Silicon Valley companies are more likely to stop in the career centers of San Jose State and UC Santa Cruz than to travel to recruit at less well known non-local schools.</p>
<p>Well, I’m not 100% on Med school, I want to either do something with Math/CS or go to Med school. If I went to grad school would it still matter which undergrad I went to?</p>
<p>No, it wouldn’t matter which undergrad you went to as long as you have the knowledge and efforts, and how well you did in your undergrad program; grades, scores, etc…depending on your major. In terms of recruit for jobs, generally companies go to their local area schools first before they go elsewhere. It saves them money and time from having to travel out of state.</p>
<p>Graduate schools in academic subjects (like math and CS) do care about the reputation of your undergraduate school in that subject.</p>
<p>Medical (and law) schools are generally regarded as being more GPA focused and less caring about how difficult or grade inflated your undergraduate school was, or whether you chose more or less difficult courses there.</p>
<p>^ That, or, at least, the faculty of the CS department of the university you wish to study in have heard of your undergrad school, aside from letting them know about who you are, your capabilities and the specific project you wish to undertake.</p>