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> The 1% of fresh graduates that would be a good fit for us already have job offers by their junior year by the likes of Google & Facebook. Just ask the students at Rice.

As a Rice graduate, I can say that not all of us went to Google or Facebook. I stayed in Houston, for instance, despite options to go more or less wherever I wanted. High wage, low cost of living. My apartment is so much nicer than what many of my friends in SF or Mountain View are living in despite higher salaries.

The problem is I had to aggressively seek out smaller companies and start-ups here to find my current job. I can say with utmost confidence that there are some incredibly talented CS graduates coming out of Rice, completely on par with Stanford or other top schools. It is so bizarre to me that the few startups that we do have in Houston often make little to no effort at all to recruit from Rice.