Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 21:05     Subject: To you, what schools are truly worth 90k/year

Anonymous wrote:It’s not true FANNG hire from every school. They do have a target list of top schools. It’s just basic statistics and probability. Kids with 1550+ SAT are just more likely to be good engineers than the ones scored 1200.


There are lots of kids with those stats at many schools.

FAANG hired my DC (1600 SAT, 4.0 UW GPA) from the CTCL DC graduated from several years ago. It's all about skills.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 22:08     Subject: To you, what schools are truly worth 90k/year

Anonymous wrote:Ivies
MIT
Stanford
Duke
Rice
WashU
JHU
Vanderbilt
Caltech
UChicago
Northwestern



I’ll add some of the top LACs to that list. Williams, Swath, Bowdoin, Midd are in many ways better than some of the schools you listed and have strong alum networks.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 20:21     Subject: To you, what schools are truly worth 90k/year

It’s not true FANNG hire from every school. They do have a target list of top schools. It’s just basic statistics and probability. Kids with 1550+ SAT are just more likely to be good engineers than the ones scored 1200.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2025 19:01     Subject: To you, what schools are truly worth 90k/year

None at our income level. If rich, any my kids would like.