<p>Next question for you guys:</p>
<p>90% of students at MIT EECS do undergrad research through the UROP program. Will they necessarily be preferred by corporations and grad schools over a student from WPI or another strong undergrad engineering program solely because they are from MIT and did undergrad research or will other factors such as GPA/quality of work matter as well. I heard somewhere that recruiters at Stanford and MIT just hire them on the basis that they are from a top school without even looking at GPA. I don’t doubt that the students at MIT aren’t brilliant but it seems like a top 1% student at WPI would easily be at least top 15% (if not more) at MIT.</p>
<p>I always thought talent is more important than the school you go to and I need some of you to provide feedback. Does ability matter the most, is it professional networking, or is it the school you go to, or a certain combination of all of them.</p>