Many exceptional students probably do not attend the schools that you visit
If you assume that the best students only attend the top ranked schools, you are making a big mistake.
A while back I asked a recruiter at a large well-known network firm that recruited engineers at MIT, Caltech, and the other top-ranked technology schools to identify the single school who was attended by the best-performing engineers who were hired over the last five years. After running the data, the answer much to his surprise was “a second-tier state school.” Read More »