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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very few LACs are anywhere near the rigor of top engineering universities. That's what happens when your school is mostly "soft" subjects.[/quote]

Do you care to explain why when adjusted for size SLACs send a far higher percentage of their students to PhD programs than the schools which you obsessively adore? [/quote] The schools PP adores give their students the option to go into highly lucrative industry careers or grad school. With a LAC, there is pretty much no choice, so of course more go to grad school. That's not necessarily a success.[/quote]

That is funny, wildly incorrect but funny.

Top SLACs place as well or better into highly lucrative careers as well or better than any top university major for major. Ironically many also place very well for CS and Swarthmore and Mudd engineering grads are highly sought after. The universities that they adore place  a lot of engineers which skews their numbers.[/quote]nI can believe this for Mudd, but I'll need evidence for Swarthmore being a FAANG target[/quote]

Is FAANG the benchmark now? The vast majority of engineering majors at a FAANG aren't from the school that you covet. I've posted many times here about FAANG engineers. The ones on my team were from MIT, CIT, Waterloo, and Toronto. But I also had SJSU, UCSC, CP SLO, NCstate, Missouri S&T, UN Reno, RIT. A Midd grad is VP Product  for a Google group (not mine, mine is led by a Stanford grad), and I have a L8 (Director) peer from RIT. You just don't get it, these schools aren't "all that and a bag of chips" in our world.

If a FAANG was really your target I would go to SJSU and just try to crush it.[/quote]
FAANG feeders tend to be schools that are very good at cs- Georgia tech, UT, Stanford, CMU, etc.[/quote]

I was in a tech leadership role at two of the companies in that acronym and I now work at one of the Magnificent 7. You are partially correct, there are lot's of people from those schools and the FAANGs do look at those schools because of consistent talent quality. But they really don't care where you come from. There is no real advantage from those schools. A coder from a non selective who can pass the tests will get the exact same look as someone from CMU. In some ways they prefer the non-selective because it makes things look more inclusive.

U Wash is great for recruiting because of proximity
Same for UT
Same for SJSU, Stanford, UCB, UCSC

I went to a SUNY and now make 7 figures. FAANGs don't care[/quote]

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