<p>Coureur, the fact that PG’s firm interviews and investigates thousand of recent college grads per year in order to invest venture capital in a handfull certainly makes his observations far more than mere opinions and infinitely more valid that any anecdotal examples that most CC posters are able to provide.</p>
<p>Quality of education and quality of ideas is overwhelmingly a function of the individual and not the college he or she attended as an undergraduate. If this were not so, how could thousands of undergrads from little known private colleges and moderately selective public universities go on to more selective graduate programs and succeed as well as their peers from more highly regarded institutions. In fact, because research universities have so much invested in their graduate students, why would the highly selective even consider their admittance if they were handicapped with an inferior undergrad education?</p>