[anamax]

You probably need more than one great university nearby.

SV has Stanford, Berkeley, and San Jose State. You may not have heard of SJS, but there are more (local) Apple employees who graduated from SJS than from Stanford and Berkeley.

FWIW, Stanford is relatively small. Berkeley's freshman class is larger than Stanford's entire undergraduate program.

[csa]

> You probably need more than one great university nearby.

Texas A&M and Baylor are probably close enough to be within the Austin sphere, certainly if the Austin metro area expands.

Rice, University of Houston, Trinity, SMU, etc. are also in the broader halo.