I'd be curious how viable a strategy of "get in, network like crazy for a semester, get out" is if the plan is to do a startup from the get go. My guess is "jus

I'd be curious how viable a strategy of "get in, network like crazy for a semester, get out" is if the plan is to do a startup from the get go. My guess is "just do the startup" is better but doing one semester might be a decent alternative (assuming you do get accepted). At least "got into Stanford, dropped out to work full time on this once I realized how great it is" seems like a decent signaling pitch to VCs. Shows commitment (dropped out of uni for this) and sends the boring old signals (got into Stanford).