[nickbarnwell]

I went to UW last year and yes, that's still the case, and it's incredibly unfortunate. There are quite a few students who are wickedly talented and very gifted engineers that have been turned down from the program because they were bored by the mandatory introductory courses or were building products instead of slaving away on Physics problem sets. Year after year they turn out graduates who will sidle into the ranks of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon and toil away as a well-compensated cog.

It's both a disappointing waste of talent and bad for the Seattle startup community.