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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did that.  Not quite Harvard, but turned down Duke, Cornell, and Dartmouth engineering to go to UMD.  It was the decision between graduating debt free or $100k+ in debt.

Ironically at my first job my cube mate came from Yale, so I'm not sure it made much of a difference in the end.  Part of me still wonders "what if?" 20 years later, but I'm not sad with how my life turned out.[/quote]
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There are Googlers who graduated from top tier who work along side state u grads.   I worked with someone from Cornell; I graduated from no name state u.[/quote]

I never understand this reasoning.  Unless you can prove Google hires in the same proportion from Harvard vs a specific State U, it doesn’t verify anything.

If Google hires 50 from Harvard and only 10 from UVA…well the odds are significantly better at Harvard.[/quote]
Google hires a lot from SJSU (because of proximity mostly).  Does that make it better than UVA?  Would someone really pick SJSU over UVA coming from oos?[/quote]

If you want to work at Google or other Silicon Valley companies…yes.  You answered your own question.

However this thread is UVA vs Harvard, so not sure why you are mentioning SJSU.

The point is that sure, Google hires kids from anywhere…but if they hire 40 from a class of 1500 but only 10 from a class of 5000…well your odds are much better from the former.[/quote]
This particular thread is about how a PP turned down Cornell and Duke to go to UMD. It's a similar situation to my example.

Point being, it's not where you go, but what you do when you get there.

Google now no longer even requires a degree for software programming if you are that good.  [/quote]

You aren’t making a good point.  I don’t even care about any particular school…but if any employer seems to give priority to one school (ie seems to hire a larger percentage of grads) vs another…well then it is an advantage to attend one school over the other.

It makes no sense if you say Google hires people from state school or Stanford if they hire way more from Stanford. [/quote]

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