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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Opportunities are very everywhere for college students regardless of where you attend.  My DS was a CS major at a third tier university but he always went to technology conferences and established professional network connections there.  He got rejected so many times that he lost count but there is a FinTech startup that took a chance on him and hired him after he graduated in 2014.  The company was acquired by a bigger FinTech player in 2018 and my DS got his options fully vested worth 25M at the age of twenty six.  It is what you make of it.[/quote]

On the one hand I love hearing these stories...but on the other hand you are saying that your kid actually had a very hard time getting a job coming out of a 3rd tier college and got very lucky (luck is absolutely a part of life) that the "one" company that was willing to hire him also had a successful exit.

You do realize that your same kid coming out of say Stanford would have had 100 start-ups vying for his services (plus countless large tech, VC firms, etc.).[/quote]

My spouse went to a no their college and got a good job in CS.  No one cares where you go to school and after a few years its far  more about skill (with a degree as a friend doesn't have a degree and really struggles to get a job even though he's good at what he does).[/quote]

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