Why so negative on Stanford?
Also, Trulia, Stubhub, K9, etc.
BTW, I have a D18 and if she gets into any of these universities, ANY, then I’ll be doing cartwheels.
Yes these are mediocre compared to Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Tesla, Google etc. The current best start-up produced by Stanford undergrad is Snapchat I guess. Stanford students also get so much VC funding, networkings and support but still doing much worse than Harvard, Princeton, UPenn, Michigan undergrads. These schools are also very far away from Silicon Valley. What is wrong with Stanford undergrads ?
Clearly, they’re doomed to a life of poverty. LMAO. What a ridiculous thread.
@JamesVanc Are you NYCFan?
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/12/6/net-effects-harvard-is-no-stranger/
BTW, the two of three richest guys were H’s dropouts, not H college graduates. So, to become the richest, by your logic, is to enroll at H and then dropout?
@sushiritto, I am not here to comment on the quality of Stanford, which is a first class elite university, but on the weather, lol. I’m really only kidding (well, sort of ) and I fully acknowledge that I am annoying on the subject but it drives me kind of crazy when people praise the weather out here. It may have reached 70 degrees yesterday (barely) but today it’s grim and cloudy and FIFTY-SEVEN degrees. WTF? When we visited the east coast over Passover/Easter, the days were glorious and sunny with 70 and 80 degree days.
William Hewlett and David Packard, founders of what is now the world’s leading PC manufacturer, met as Stanford undergraduates in the 1930s. Subsequent Stanford alumni include the founders or co-founders of Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Intel, Yahoo!, Netflix, Paypal, TechCrunch, Electronic Arts, LinkedIn, YouTube and Mozilla Firefox. Oh, and Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google. In fact, one in 20 Google employees is a Stanford graduate
According to a recent study by business research firm CB Insights, between 2007 and 2011 Stanford-educated entrepreneurs raised $4.1bn in venture capital and angel investment deals (Harvard alums ranked second in the list of top US colleges with $3.8bn – but $2bn of that came from Facebook alone). Another 2012 study, conducted by Stanford academics Charles Eesley and William Miller, estimated that Stanford alumni and faculty members had founded 39,900 companies since the 1930s, creating 5.4 million jobs and generating annual revenues of $2.7tn. If Stanford grads formed their own country, it would have one of the world’s 10 largest economies.
@3girls3cats it was said a bit tongue in cheek. But later this week (Friday), according to the weather on my iPhone, it’s all sun and temperature rises to 80 degrees over the following week. The weather here is fantastic most of the year. And we’re now out of the drought with all the wet snow (mountains) and rain this past winter.
Sergey Brin got undergraduated degree from University of Maryland and Larry Page to undergraduate degree from University of Michigan. Not from Stanford Sorry.
Yeah, Google founders went to Stanford graduate school, not undergrad. But that’s good enough for me. Jen-Hsun Huang did Masters at Stanford also. So go to any undergrad, and then come to Stanford graduate school if you can get in. That’s another viable route.
LOL @sushiritto, spoken like a true Bay area native. The weather we had this winter was as far from fantastic weather as you can get without venturing into snowmaggedon territory. (Which by the way, even the northeast avoided this year.) At least the drought is over. Let’s hope next winter is not a repeat of this one or if it is that it doesn’t persist into April. I could have stayed on the east coast and paid a heck of a lot less to live there and had the same period of dreariness.
Now that it’s nearly May, I would hope we are in store for a decent stretch! I will be thoroughly enjoying the sun and warmth, I promise you.
Ok, I realize this discussion is not actually the proper forum for my weather rants and I promise to stop now. 
Silicon Valley hires the most alumni of these 10 universities, and none of them are in the Ivy League…
Please don’t introduce facts into this discussion. Just terrible. :))
@ewho – isn’t that list potentially misleading? It should, at a minimum, divide the number employed by the average number of graduates in tech majors at those universities. For example, if there were only 50 tech grads at Harvard and all 50 were employed, that’s significant, while if there were 100 tech grads employed out of 1000 at ASU it’s much less significant even though ASU had twice as many go to SV.
^ the title was correct and numbers were probably correct too, just the math might have a little problem. Percentage is a main part of new SAT. I guess the authors had never taken it, so they might not even understand the difference between the numbers and percents. Also, they probably did not graduate from ivies. So, yes, it could be misleading, at least they did not abuse the stats, like the OP used two outliers to generalize. And hopefully they know what stats is.
@droppedit is correct. Mostly all large universities, though Stanford did get to #2.
@ewho – unnecessarily hostile response … especially since I think Stanford is the best U in the country (for many reasons, including the fact that it’s in the center of and a leader in the tech world). We’re full pay and I told D18 that Stanford is one of the few universities I’d feel comfortable cutting checks to for school (the others being HYP even though they’re not a better “fit” for her).
^ Sorry, didn’t mean it. I just did not know how to answer an illogical message that is cutNpaste so many times (not yours). I have no problems with most ivies, especially (S)YP(M), since they have been nice to my children.
@droppedit Feel the same way. Another future full pay here. Rightly or wrongly, for me there are around 5 colleges for which I would go full pay for my kid if he really wanted to go there. My kid just accepted offer of admission but took a deferred enrollment for one year to study a language and culture abroad. One concern I have is that he will forget English language when he starts at Stanford and flunk out like his dad almost did. lol