[chralieboy]

No need for an Ivy, just go to Stanford.

There is an argument for prescreening, but having been part of the interview process for a high profile YC company in its early days, I can say that the weight placed on "likeness" is very high.

The correlation between likeness and competence, not so much.

[NhanH]

Not to contradict your post. But Stanford is equivalent in term of prestige to any Ivy out there, including Harvard. It seems like you agree with GP so that's probably just a wording matter.

[ssalazar]

In CS/eng, indeed, more so in fact. For humanities, not as much.