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I agree with the survivorship bias, maybe there are other dropouts who I never heard of. But on the selection bias, I can't really think off the top of my head
by DevX101 16y ago
I agree with the survivorship bias, maybe there are other dropouts who I never heard of.
But on the selection bias, I can't really think off the top of my head many other major founders from top C.S. schools that dropped out and were successful. Is Harvard even a "top" C.S. school?
- mdwrigh2 16y agoAccording to US News [1], it's ranked 17th which is decent, but not great. On the other hand that ranking is for graduate schools though, which takes into account things like citations of research published, which is less important at the undergraduate level. I'd say at the undergraduate level, Harvard is a top CS school if only because the competition is so fierce to get into it at that level, the students will be among the top. And, in my opinion, the quality of the students is of more importance than the quality of the teaching at the undergraduate level, when you start talking about the top 20 schools anyways. [1]: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings/page+1 http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
- Retric 16y agoIf you include grad school it seems fairly common. Sergey Brin "is on leave from his Ph.D. studies at Stanford."