> I was looking at the YCombinator graduates and realized that in order to get accepted you had to have went to a very good college.

Is this written doctrine, or just an observation?

University-ism is one of those things that really bugs me, given that it basically boils down to "physical proximity and financial means to attend a university that I've heard of", without respect to the fact that some really dumb people still end up at very good universities (and similarly, lots of smart people end up at less-good universities).

Not that I'm suggesting that YC operates any such policy. I just thought it was worth mentioning because I've seen it in operation in various places and it generally causes me to run a mile.