Paul Graham praises applications from Waterloo students(techvibes.com)
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Paul Graham praises applications from Waterloo students
http://www.techvibes.com/blog/paul-graham-y-combinator-waterloo-2013-01-22
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I'd imagine it's related to the fact that Waterloo not only has very high academic standards (probably comparable to UC Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, etc...) but that they also require an industry coop for all undergrads.
Having been to a few universities, including UW, I'm going to suppose that it's due to a well-tuned culture in the math faculty. There's not so much BS; there are good, committed and intense instructors; the curriculum is great; the resources are good; the faculty is small even to the extent of being 'tight'.
Probably, too, it sits atop a Canadian culture of higher learning.
I mean, the reasons it's good and gets props are extensive.
Probably, too, it sits atop a Canadian culture of higher learning.
I mean, the reasons it's good and gets props are extensive.
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it's not all undergrads. about 30% of CS students are not in co-op.
Maybe this praise is due to the Velocity program really helping students solidify their ideas/business models before pursuing YC. I believe Pair and Bufferbox were apart of Velocity no?
As well as Pebble, Kik, and Vidyard.