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An academic department practices departmentcest when they disproportionately accepting graduate students from the pool of their own recent undergraduates, rather than selecting from undergraduates of other schools. Rigorous and prestigious departments avoid departmentcest, as they prefer to encourage students to explore different arenas in academia by choosing different schools for undergraduate and graduate work.
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