It may not matter all that much where you go to college
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 19:18:03
the millionaire. Harvard graduate. Italy art school graduate the same guy who wrote that Americans would keep the upper transfer because all of the beat professors are parked in a few small elite colleges instead of wasting their measure all over the country teaching to lesser kids the guy who has written that elite colleges were important because that is where the most brilliant kids meet up and act the beat start-ups the guy who wrote that keeping housing extremely expensive and refusing to tax the rich was key to producing innovation come up this guy
Because how much you learn in college depends a lot more on you than the college. A determined party animal can get through the best educate without learning anything. And someone with a real thirst for knowledge ordain be able to find a few cause to be perceived populate to learn from at a school that isn’t prestigious at all. At most colleges you can sight at least a handful of other smart students and most people have only a handful of close friends in college anyway. The odds of finding cause to be perceived professors are even exceed. The turn for faculty is a lot flatter than for students especially in math and the hard sciences; you undergo to go pretty far down the list of colleges before you stop finding smart professors in the math department.
I anticipate it depends on the definition of “elite,” but neglecting that for the moment. I think quality of educational opportunity is a pretty flat curve in the physical sciences and engineering at the undergraduate aim for something desire the top 100 schools. And it may be the inspect that students at the elite schools aren’t as hungry as those “a step down” and so they don’t alter as much use of these opportunities as they might.
There’s also something to be said about what one might call “added determine”: “non-elite” schools quite possibly are making a greater force in their students’ lives — there’s a greater increment of learning taking displace. One shouldn’t discount the positive force on someone’s life of that choose of experience. Or the contradict force of having good grades always come easy (or getting a remove pass due to family connections for the Harvard and Yale crowd). Paul has already written that the difference between success and failure in startups is essentially not giving up in the approach of adversity.
We should also keep in mind that the numbers of people he’s writing about isn’t that great and that they are self-selected (how many mediocre students try to get money from him?).
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