UPenn vs Rice for CS

dimkin
Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:53:17 +0000

This discussion has little relevance to OP’s question because there is little prestige difference here.

But in reality prestige/rankings/selectivity etc is a real proxy, albeit poor proxy for an estimate of candidates’ natural ability / work habits. i.e. if they got into those schools it tells you something about them, and it’s a persistent factor - like a characteristic of their “talent”… terrible proxy, I know. But many people use it … and TBH every time I tried to tell myself - let me give the benefit of the doubt and deviate and interview / hire people form lesser “ranked” schools, it ended up biting me … yes … small sample size … yes only anecdotal evidence … but you know that “some” filtering has been done for you when you talk to people that have gone to certain schools …