YC at Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UPenn

Re:YC at Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UPenn by akhilcacharya on Thursday February 09, 2017 @11:42AM (#13608252)

I attended their office hours with Kevin Hale at my school - NC State, very far from a top tier school. Neat experience, but [0] they never posted about visiting on HackerNews.

[0] Apparently they did in their Winter Tour last year, my mistake.

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Re:YC at Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UPenn by katm on Thursday February 09, 2017 @11:45AM (#13608287)

We announced the visit to NC State last year: https://blog.ycombinator.com/winter-2016-college-tour/

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Re:YC at Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UPenn by akhilcacharya on Thursday February 09, 2017 @11:50AM (#13608345)

My mistake, must have missed that. I found out through our school's entrepreneurship program.

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Re:YC at Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UPenn by jnate15 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @11:48AM (#13608323)

NC State is more qualified than you give credit. US News ranks NC State's Engineering program higher than Duke's. Duke / NC State / UNC are three strong universities.

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...

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Re:YC at Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UPenn by akhilcacharya on Thursday February 09, 2017 @11:55AM (#13608414)

Eh - quality of education and research aside, and it's fine in that regard, it still doesn't have the same prestige as the other two by a long shot.

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Re:YC at Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UPenn by jnate15 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @12:08PM (#13608569)

I have experience with NC State, Duke, UNC. At the undergraduate level there isn't much difference between the three (except basketball).

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