<p>1) Is the undergraduate institution taken in account when applying to grad school? (would being at Harvard as an undergrad be different from being at UT austin for admission committees?) Of LORs from eminent professors is not taken in account here.</p>
<p>2) If the undergraduate institution play a role in the admission, how much weigh can it have? For example, how much does a guy from a very bad and low ranked university (let’s say Sam Houston University, or whatever) for his subject who still did a very good job as an undergrad get penalized compared to his counterpart in Harvard who was average?</p>
<p>3) Finally, on the admission threads, why does everybody who went to grad school seem to have gone to a prestigious university as an undergrad, and another prestigious one as a graduate student? Is there an elitist system that makes it hard to progress toward that elite when you begin in the “proletariat” community of college students?</p>
<p>I’m concerned about this issue because I don’t want my prospective university to ruin my chances for grad school.</p>
<p>Thank you for reading!</p>
<p>PS: I’m interested in engineering for the moment.</p>