[quote=flu]Stanford is harder to get in 🙂 At least if you do get in, tuition is free if your household income is less than $150k. In the bay area, I did run into a bunch of Stanford grads, and they were pretty capable. The school runs like an incubator[/quote]My bet though, is that if you take any of these guys and put them in SJSU or SDSU, they would still be where they are today. I still believe that they make the school and not the school make them. Meg wouldn’t be where she is today if she didn’t get lucky and be part of the eBay start up. Same with Marissa Meyer. I don’t think these school somehow changed them to make them want to do a start up. It’s in their DNA. But I have no data to back that assumption.
If my kids are really that smart to be able to get into Ivy/Stanford, I can just retire a few years before they apply, so that my income will be near $0. Then they’ll get a free ride. Then the ROI definitely will be there :-D.
