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I doubt your average developer knows that Paul and Knuth went to Case Western. You're average developer probably doesn't know that the founder of Paypal and the co-founder of Youtube went to UIUC. I'm not really sure what argument you're trying to make. People in industry typically just don't care about these types of associations.

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No offense, but did you read the thread? You kind of reiterated my point.

The fact that most people cite, at best, Knuth and Paul says little about CWRU since most people can't cite anyone from virtually any other school.

And BTW, UIUC was probably the biggest gimme... although I'm surprised you didn't go with Andreesen and Ozzie. Those are the names I most typically hear thrown out.

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