Couldn’t agree more. A few weeks back, I was having a conversation with a professor at MIT where I am helping them scale-up a technology for commercialization. The professor was pretty blunt in saying that the real assets of MIT, who bring innovation to the table, are the students who come for the Graduate School program. UGs are accomplished but are mostly there because they knew how to strategically check all the boxes which make them ‘agents of change for the world’. My recommendation to my son and other aspiring kids in STEM programs is to excel in the UG program at a good public school and if at the end of the education, they are convinced about their passion for technology, they could go to an elite private school for the Graduate program and work on innovative research. That said - it doesn’t hurt to put your name in the draw but not being too attached to the outcome.
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