>>12684063Pro-tip: No one cares about the grad school you went to, they care about 1) who your PI is and 2) what your publications are, since at that point you are standing-on-your-own and can represent yourself (obviously early in PhD you have nothing, but PI can inform the quality of your work to come). Depending on your field, the best/most famous PIs are not at UCSF/Harvard/etc, but instead at one of the other universities.
When you are at big conferences, the only thing that matters is your PI and your research. The school emblem is literally and afterthought and I see it missing from a lot of posters, no one cares.