<p>Too soon to tell really, tutu17. He’s only just started this fall. But so far he seems to be enjoying his classes and starting to find “his people”.</p>
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<p>Employers will travel to the top schools in the subject, but they will also recruit at local schools out of convenience.</p>
<p>For example, a Silicon Valley computer company will likely recruit at Berkeley and Stanford (local and highly regarded) and travel to MIT, UIUC, CMU, Texas, UCLA, USC, Cal Poly SLO, etc., but also do convenient local recruiting at UCSC and SJSU.</p>
<p>My mistake. I did not realize that it was this past year. I have a daughter starting this fall at NYU as well. Good luck to your son. My father in law was a visiting professor at Cornell and I know how demanding that program can be!</p>
<p>A reply to an old comment on here, but just a correction</p>
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<p>That’s very false. It was because of Larry Page’s adviser, Terry Winograd, that he decided to research PageRank (the basis of Google’s search engine) - he’s said it was the ‘best advice he ever got.’ It was because of another professor, David Cheriton, that Page and Brin were connected with Andy Bechtolsheim (another Stanford alum) who gave them the first $100,000, which Cheriton matched, before they were even incorporated. Cheriton was also the one whose connections set Page and Brin up to talk with the two most prestigious venture capital firms (KPCB and Sequoia), which of course are right next to the campus and provided them with the funds to make data centers (very costly back then). Before that, Stanford was generous to give them their own subdomain (google.stanford.edu) and provided them with high-performance computers and tons of server space/bandwidth - otherwise they wouldn’t’ve had the money to create a mock-up so that they could get any investments in the first place (or to test whether it was a worthwhile way to serve up search results).</p>
<p>So Stanford was far more than just a meeting place for the founders - without Stanford, things would probably have turned out very different.</p>