I was in Silicon Valley/Mountain View/Palo Alto/Cupertino recently on business. Saw a lot of the area. Tried to take it all in (tech, Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc.). Toured Stanford campus. Seems like a superior breed of humans. Do you know anyone who went to Stanford? I don't. Are they really the best of the best or do they just think they are? I’m inclined to think they are a least a little bit special (assuming they are computer science or engineering students). The qualifications to get in that school as a white male are remarkable. The number of remarkable people (engineers, astronauts, business people, nobel prize winners, etc.) that Stanford has produced is astonishing. They have changed the world! The wealth!
The campus is beautiful too. And massive.
If you could get into Stanford why would you go anywhere else?