I have a good friend whose daughter graduated from Slippery Rock and is also about to graduate from a PA program in Philadelphia (don’t know which one). I know another young man who had a bit of a GPA drop in high school (got sidetracked academically by football for a couple of years) and attended Washington & Jefferson , where he received some great mentoring. I heard he just took a job with Pfizer after earning a Ph.D in chemistry from U Michigan. Just anecdotal, of course, but nevertheless, two true success stories of students coming from these lesser-known schools.