"Facebook, Apple and Google campus recruitment is about half and half state schools and half private schools. They don't even bother with some of the Ivies like Yale and Dartmouth."
You're wrong. They may spend more time at MIT and Stanford, but they spend plenty of time at Brown and Yale and Harvard and the other top schools with CS programs. I know for a fact that Facebook hires a ton of people from Harvard.
"Rich kids don't go into engineering."
You're thinking Paris Hilton, when you should be thinking Moderately Well-Off Kid From Berkeley. That's more than sufficiently "rich", for the purposes of my argument. There are huge numbers of kids living in the suburban midwest for whom a Berkeley CS degree is a financial pipe dream. Dad might be an insurance salesman, and mom a teacher, and they barely have enough money to send junior to State U., let alone a top-tier CS school.
You're wrong. They may spend more time at MIT and Stanford, but they spend plenty of time at Brown and Yale and Harvard and the other top schools with CS programs. I know for a fact that Facebook hires a ton of people from Harvard.
"Rich kids don't go into engineering."
You're thinking Paris Hilton, when you should be thinking Moderately Well-Off Kid From Berkeley. That's more than sufficiently "rich", for the purposes of my argument. There are huge numbers of kids living in the suburban midwest for whom a Berkeley CS degree is a financial pipe dream. Dad might be an insurance salesman, and mom a teacher, and they barely have enough money to send junior to State U., let alone a top-tier CS school.