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<p>A small comment: depending on what you meant by “impresses,” I should clarify that percentage of undergraduate populations going on to do a PhD is based on both adequacy of preparation for PhD programs and also (largely) on student interest in pursuing graduate studies. One doesn’t know * which* PhD programs the students end up at, and it’s hard to say from such statistics what the strengths of an undergraduate school as a grad prep environment are. </p>
<p>So for instance, an Ivy League, which is probably full of plenty of preprofessional majors and others who don’t want to go to grad school, may not have a great “percentage of students sent to grad school” statistic, but may have the best resources for *you<a href=“generally%20speaking”>/i</a> to succeed and make it to grad school. You need to ask yourself what resources you need to succeed, and how those align with what’s necessary to make it into graduate school.</p>