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HN seems pretty sure that the only difference between a top-20 residential college and a rural commuter school ranked in the 300s is the wealth of the people attending.

We recognize vast differences in quality between engineers, managers, companies, and code... but not education? Why?

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Imagined quality differences shouldn't be recognised where don't actually exist. To quote the story:

"in David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell draws upon research that shows it’s actually more advantageous for a student to attend a college where they can be in the top 10% rather than in the bottom half of the class. It’s the top students at every college who receive the kind of attention from faculty and access to special programs that pave the way to more opportunity after college."

Perhaps because formal-education's relationship to programming-savvy appears more tenuous than some other disciplines?

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