[cmsonger]

Given your aspirations, the choice is MIT. The connections and pedigree will matter when you go to try to start a company. Also clear that you are entering a field where the cost of eduction is not really going to matter that much. You are going to make plenty of money to pay back student loans.

The one proviso: you gotta love the field. A worst case pass is to get the expensive education and to learn that you don't love it. That's a bad outcome. But assuming that you've had enough experience with open source that you feel the calling: MIT.