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Do top companies prefer recruitment from elite schools?

See the comment by the CEO of Duo Lingo:

https://twitter.com/LuisvonAhn/status/1050426808393506817?s=...

Per the tweet: CMU has higher female ratios in their CS programs? Is that specific to undergraduate?

I’ve looked into applying to their masters programs and of the ~20 options, only two appear to have higher than 50% female[0]: (1) HCI and (2) Educational techn. and Applied Learning Science.

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/sites/default/files/SCS_Masters_Progr...

I believe that "higher" means higher female ratios than many other CS programs, not necessarily more females than males.

Not CMU, but Cornell's College of Engineering most recent class enrolled more women than men.

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