University Graduates

Is graduating from Middlebury College a good springboard for getting jobs/getting into good graduate schools?

I am attending Middlebury College. I am not completely sure what I want to do with my life but for now I am an International Studies Major and taking premed classes. I am looking at graduate schools such as Stanford, UC Berkley, University of Chicago, UPenn, and UCLA. I have fairly good grades, but I feel like Middlebury is not well known. Would graduating from Middlebury help or hinder my chances to get into these graduate schools/finding jobs and internships?

Public Comments

1. I don't know about graduate schools, but yesterday, there was an article about Ivy League school graduates having higher salaries then graduates of public universities.
2. Middlebury is very well respected, and with good grades you would be very competitive for top graduate programs at a number of good schools. If you are thinking of medical school, be sure to get an MCAT study guide and see if you are taking enough science to do well.
3. Quite the contrary, Middlebury is one of the better liberal arts colleges in the US and is likely to be familiar to any admissions officer or faculty evaluator in a good graduate program. If your grades are good and you have strong letters of reference from faculty at Middlebury, your odds of acceptance into a premier graduate program are good. The prestige of the undergraduate institution is not the primary basis for an admissions decision, but everything else on their applications being equal, a graduate of a good liberal arts college like Middlebury would rank ahead of a graduate from an institution of lesser prestige.