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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry how exactly is the quality of the education at Columbia and Cornell declining?  I am deeply familiar with one of these institutions - there is absolutely no evidence of such decline from what I see (quite the opposite).[/quote]

For Columbia, it was mostly smoke and mirrors in the first place. Making up crazy stats, leaving out the stats from the School for General Studies. That’s what the math prof who exposed Columbia’s data fraud said in an interview with Malcolm Gladwell. He said that there’s no way Columbia could ever compete with schools like Harvard and MIT. That’s why UNSWR T5 ranking immediately made him suspect fraud.[/quote]

Pound for pound, Columbia does better than MIT or Harvard in silicon valley placement.

Visualized: The Top Feeder Schools into Silicon Valley
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/the-top-feeder-schools-into-silicon-valley/[/quote]

I worked for a FAANG for several years. I paid some special attention to it. 
Most regular employees went to schools like CarnegieM (top pipeline), Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Cornell (most popular Ivy), followed by UPenn and Columbia. The top researchers had degrees from schools like MIT. GT, UWashington, UCLA, and NYU seemed to be other popular pipelines. I didn’t meet that many HYP graduates btw (I guess most of them tend to join EPS companies).

In the end, previous work experience is more interesting/impressive. You get mostly excited to collaborate with former NASA and Tesla employees (regardless of their alma maters). Btw, some of the most impressive superstars went to “lower ranked” (state) schools for undergrad - think Arizona St, UC Irvine, Utah St, etc (but still attended prestigious universities for PhD -  Stanford, MIT, no Ivy League). The most impressive/well-rounded colleagues went to British schools (Oxford, LSE, etc)… they were not just experts but also seemed to grasp the wider implications of our work, such as societal impact etc…[/quote]

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