I think the people at Harvard are smart enough to recognize a smart kid from a crappy school when they see one.[/quote]
Yes, in theory. In practice,statistically, more of your students come from the not so crappy schools where there is a precedence of enrollments from there.
But like I also said, not everyone should be going to Harvard-like schools. Nor is it all what it’s cracked up to be. I know plenty of people that went to Ivy’s/Stanford/Berkeley, etc that flunked out the first year (both asians and non-asians). Imho it was a dis-service for them. And not getting into a top school isn’t the end of the world here in the U.S. (at least imho).
Now plenty of people that went to a not-so-top-ten like college that ended up at qcom like me when I started, and saying that they are doing fine is probably an understatement.
The nice thing about america is that short of getting killed and ending up in prison, if you fvck up at some point in your life or just a general fvckup, it’s generally not “over”. After all, the government does have a tendency to bailout people and institutions in messes 🙂
