[d--b]

I don't know anything about the topic, but perhaps graduating Stanford offers a broader range of possible jobs than Olin does. Hence in a sense you have less to loose risking starting a company when you're an Olin graduate than a Stanford graduate?

[Bartweiss]

This is definitely the case, in that Stanford offers lots of degrees not at all on founding "tracks". Doctors, theoretical physicists, etc are not somehow failed founders, they're doing a completely different thing with their lives. By being engineering-specific, Olin is totally incomparable to Stanford on this axis.