<p>I’m looking at Pitt as well as a variety of smaller, highly reputed liberal arts colleges. I like Pitt’s campus and academics a lot, but I am worried about the reputation. Do Pitt graduates get into top grad schools and become successful? Is it hard getting into good grad schools if you go to Pitt?</p>
<p>Absolutely not. How and what you do in school matters most. In fact, your opportunities for undergrad research are infinitely better at a school like Pitt, and that is a huge factor for graduate application, particularly health sciences and research oriented fields. In any case, Pitt is likely better known than many smaller liberal arts schools because it has a national reputation.</p>
<p>As the other person said, there are TONS of research opportunities (if you’re planning on doing anything with research) at Pitt and Pitt’s reputation has vastly improved and will not prevent you from going to grad school at all, in fact Pitt has some great grad schools as well.
I was in the same situation, most of the schools I looked at were small liberal arts school except Pitt and Maryland. In the end, there were a lot of reasons I chose Pitt including all of the opportunities Pitt provides and the great city. If you want to know anything else about my decision making or have any other questions about Pitt feel free to post or message me, but just so you know I feel that I definitely made the right choice going to Pitt over a small school.</p>
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Fourth Rhodes Scholar in seven years. At least a couple of them make good…</p>
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