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JHS:
our next-door neighbor – who at the time was a key faculty member for the MD/PhD program at a mid-level medical school – told her,“Don’t you realize that when it comes time to apply to graduate school, the University of Chicago really means something?” Now, how much it means is open to question, but that was an honest response from the horse’s mouth, as it were.
That reminded me of a post on another thread.</p>
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bclintonk:
Finally, I will say as a faculty member that in evaluating graduate school applicants, we’d make absolutely no distinction between a school like Michigan and a school like Duke. Both fall squarely within the category of “elite” schools from which candidates with strong undergradiate records and strong test scores are likely to receive favorable consideration. Michigan, Duke, Berkeley, UVA, Columbia, Brown, Chicago: those schools are pretty much indistinguishable for our purposes.
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<p>Most graduate programs require at least a 3.0 (3.5+ for the best programs), which isn’t that