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by mikeash 2646 days ago
Came here to post this. I did my undergrad at an obscure state university with relatively low admissions standards. I learned a shitload. Could I have done that on my own? In theory, yes. In practice, I’d already been doing that throughout high school and, while that gave me a good foundation with the basics for college and let me skip past the Programming 101 stuff, it never came anywhere close to the rigor and focus I got in a formal setting.

People seem to forget that the vast majority of college grads didn’t go to an Ivy League school.