<p>I’m looking at a paper from the WPI Career Development Center that lists the Grad Schools that WPI students have attended. Some of them include Brown, Caltech, Cornell, both Dartmouth and Harvard med schools, MIT, Princeton, Berkeley, and Yale. Given this, I would say that WPI students are definitely capable of getting into prestigous grad schools. I don’t know why Illinios or GTech is not on the list, but location might have something to do with it. With the exemption of Berkeley and Caltech, all of the school are in the Northeast.</p>
<p>Now back to the issue of why only about 20% of WPI students attend grad school. I think this is most likely because they feel prepared enough to tackle the real world right out. The same thing happens at Rose-Hulman, another small private engineering-dominated school.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is that it is entirely up to you to get into one of these prestigious grad schools, not WPI, even though a WPI education is undoubtable a good one (or at least from what I’ve heard, I am an incoming student).</p>