https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-02-04/new-york-beats-out-san-francisco-to-be-world-s-best-tech-city
@BrianBoiler Stop embarrassing yourself. New York was named the number 1 tech city in the world passing San Francisco for the first time. You may want to remove your last post before you lose all further credibility.
@BrianNoiler As for UChicago, it’s certainly a great uni. No need to be insecure. That being said it will never be even close to the most selective university or even top 5 most selective. UChicago has to use the same tactics as schools like Northeastern to pull up its app numbers. Any ED1 + ED2 school (not to mention EA as well … yikes) is immediately delegated to a lower tier of selectivity certainly below SCEA schools and Top ED schools like Columbia, Penn, Duke. I went to school at a Top 3 NYC private day school. ~2/3 cross admits this past year to Columbia and UChicago chose Columbia - even though it’s literally 20 minutes from my HS campus. Slightly less extreme ratio for Penn-UChicago in Penn’s favor. Given it used to be an even worse ratio. People either don’t want to be living in Chicago or they don’t like UChicago. I’m not going to speculate which.
Do kids in NYC still call it “ZooPenn”? Ah, the good old days…
If you think that Silicon Valley’s magic is in the large number of employees that work at well-known companies like Google et al, you really don’t understand Silicon Valley.
The magic of Silicon Valley is the ecosystem where bright (and often young) entrepreneurs give up the $200K+ total comp jobs at places like Google, to create something from scratch that they hope will become a $1B unicorn that goes public or gets bought out. And a key part of the ecosystem is Silicon Valley venture capital that goes for home runs, in contrast to the base hits that VCs in other parts of the country seem to settle for.
Yes, most of those entrepreneurs will fail, but they can always fall back to their $200K+ jobs at Google if that happens. And this forgiveness of failure is also part of the Silicon Valley ecosystem. A few will become the $1B unicorns. And a rare few will become the companies that challenge the Google/Apple/Amazon 15 years from now.
…so 1/3 of the admits chose UChicago over Columbia (I guessing close to 50/50 for Penn), since most kids stay local I think that is pretty telling. I mean if you are a NYC local why would you want to leave…
@EliteCulture331 BTW now we know your from NYC it explains a lot about your biases…
lols. if you’re going to pop off about tech… at least know what you’re talking about and not rely on an analysis that is clueless.
SF is not silicon valley… If you’re claiming that NYC has got Silicon Valley beat by pointing to SF which basically amounts to an outpost of Silicon Valley… that’s not saying much for NYC.
Silicon Valley puts it’s advertising and accounting depts in places like NYC, Austin, etc.
the brain trust is in Silicon Valley… ie the peninsula not SF.
the real competition to Silicon Valley will be from China… not anywhere in the US.
@CU123 If you think that high school students from Manhattan desire to attend college in Manhattan you are totally out of touch with NYC admissions behavior. In a normal year more students from my school choose Penn over Columbia even though Columbia is generally understood to be “more well regarded”. Given it’s very close. 2/3 is further a rough estimate. There were either 4 or 5 Columbia-UChicago cross admits from my school attending Columbia this year. I’m giving UChicago the benefit of the doubt by saying only 4 of those Columbia students were accepted at both. Note when I refer to Penn, I’m referring to Penn CAS. Wharton is the obvious choice over UChicago at my school. And no it’s not 50-50. Going off my senior year – 9 students were accepted into Penn, 6 were accepted in UChicago. All three cross admits chose Penn. I’m guessing it’s closer to 2/3; 3/5.
@sbballer San Francisco is one of THE major engines of Silicon Valley. That’s where techies live, start and invest in companies. Most Google employees especially new ones commute through atrocious traffic to Mountain View just so they can be part of the SF ecosytem and network. READ the article:
–“Deep talent pool boosted city’s ranking”,
–“Amazon … In its announcement, the internet retailer pointed to its desire for big populations of skilled workers to hire from. Google and Apple Inc. are also expanding in the city.”
–“New York got points for its venture capital investment, which was billions of dollars greater than in San Francisco over the past three years, according to the report.”
Also, don’t use your anedoctal evidence of a few people in your school and think that you have the pulse of anything in Manhattan.
the clueless article you’re relying on is talking about SF… which is an outpost of Silicon Valley.
VC funding is still largely dominated by the bay area…
you know who comes in after that? not NYC - like I said China will be the real competition.
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/the-top-ten-cities-for-100m-vc-rounds-in-2018-so-far/
this is quite possibly the dumbest thread I’ve ever read and it left whatever its topic was long ago
Agreed dumb thread. Let’s make it smart by talking more about how horribly low acceptance rates has become and ignore everything else 
This thread is wild
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This thread jumped the shark pages ago. I’m closing since there is just nothing original left to say.