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I've always wondered what it'd be like to go to Stanford and then just end up at Facebook or Google, alongside many state-school graduates. Would it be a massive let down? Sure, you might have learned more at Stanford than at your peers' state schools, but you are only using as much of your education as your peers are using.

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'just'?

How is it not "just" ending up at Facebook or Google when you could've BS'd your way through high school, gone to a mediocre state school, and landed a new-grad position at one of those companies? Stanford or X State University, suddenly all of those years mean nothing and new graduates of both schools come to the same starting blocks, only this time at a massive software company where tens of thousands of others follow suit.

Sounds like a let down to me.

Arguably it doesn't matter whether you went to Stanford or your state university, the institution where you graduated matters little in the professional world once you have that first gig.

That's exactly the point I'm trying to make. I completely agree.

I want to know, how does it feel to have gone to a place like Stanford, only to end up in the same position as someone who went to a state university?

It feels like that state university grad probably worked harder than me

I know engineers at Facebook who only have high school educations.

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