<story><title>Do I need to go to university?</title><url>http://colah.github.io/posts/2020-05-University/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdan</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a senior in high school and decided to.
I started a startup and got invited for a YC interview(got rejected) and am onto another startup which is raising soon.&lt;p&gt;Despite how much success&amp;#x2F;failure&amp;#x2F;I learn I endure, college name matters... a lot. I snuck into Nuro&amp;#x27;s open house last year and found they exclusively invited Harvard&amp;#x2F;Stanford&amp;#x2F;MIT students (I can say this because I was a minor at the time of signing their NDAs)&lt;p&gt;College name matters, especially when you&amp;#x27;re starting out (which can impact where you evenetually end up... whether its working for a startup or working at a cool VC firm) In fact most of the time, the people who&amp;#x27;ve said: &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t go to college&amp;quot; are the same people who go to Cornell, UPenn, and Stanford and probably don&amp;#x27;t realize how much of a network&amp;#x2F;presitgie gives them to get them where they are now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inapis</author><text>&amp;gt;In fact most of the time, the people who&amp;#x27;ve said: &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t go to college&amp;quot; are the same people who go to Cornell, UPenn, and Stanford and probably don&amp;#x27;t realize how much of a network&amp;#x2F;presitgie gives them to get them where they are now.&lt;p&gt;Can&amp;#x27;t emphasize this enough. College is still necessary for something like 95% of the planet&amp;#x27;s population. If you are not born into wealth or have well connected parents, a college degree is your only way to a better life. You may not learn anything in college but you need that fuckin&amp;#x27; piece of paper just for the bureaucratic formalities. A very talented friend of mine was denied the US visa probably because of lack of a bachelor degree.</text></comment>
<story><title>Do I need to go to university?</title><url>http://colah.github.io/posts/2020-05-University/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdan</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a senior in high school and decided to.
I started a startup and got invited for a YC interview(got rejected) and am onto another startup which is raising soon.&lt;p&gt;Despite how much success&amp;#x2F;failure&amp;#x2F;I learn I endure, college name matters... a lot. I snuck into Nuro&amp;#x27;s open house last year and found they exclusively invited Harvard&amp;#x2F;Stanford&amp;#x2F;MIT students (I can say this because I was a minor at the time of signing their NDAs)&lt;p&gt;College name matters, especially when you&amp;#x27;re starting out (which can impact where you evenetually end up... whether its working for a startup or working at a cool VC firm) In fact most of the time, the people who&amp;#x27;ve said: &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t go to college&amp;quot; are the same people who go to Cornell, UPenn, and Stanford and probably don&amp;#x27;t realize how much of a network&amp;#x2F;presitgie gives them to get them where they are now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>&amp;gt; college name matters&lt;p&gt;Nobody ever asks me what college I attended. Nobody cares.</text></comment>