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I'm deciding between two schools: 1. At School A are two top-in-their-field professors whose interests match almost perfectly with mine. However, it's lower ranked overall (30-50 ranking, though probably 10-20 within my specialty) and I wasn't impressed at all with the other prospective students. [Also, I'm not sure if one of the two professors I'm interested in working would really be a great advisor... He didn't seem too friendly when I talked with him, and strangely he doesn't list any of his students on his website (which seems a little bleah to me, since isn't part of the advisor's role to promote their students' work?).] 2. At School B are a couple top professors whose work is interesting, although I'm not really sure it's a research interest of mine. But it's a top 10 school, and the prospective students were a lot smarter and more interesting. What are the pros/cons of going to each? How much does your advisor really matter? It's still a little unclear to me what your advisor does, and how I should be thinking of the advisor-advisee relationship.