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>> Very few of the best graduates I’ve worked with in my ~30 year career studied at those schools - it was places like UW, UBC and Waterloo that stood out to me as producing a high number of high quality, socially adapted graduates.

> But he truly is a special kid who gets inspired by super smart people and thrives on challenges, and will do better at Cal, Caltech, Harvey Mudd etc.

As opposed to UW, UBC and Waterloo, which are filled with less intelligent people? It is laughable.

My theory - you have precisely zero idea what those schools even are.




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