If [...] your parents can afford to send you to Prep School, and then an Ivy League college, that is hardly the common "rags" that 99.9% of Americans are dealt by default.
What "
Prep School"!? I saw no mention of any "
prep school" in the article (as limited by what was imbedded in your
original posting).
You've repeatedly professed to be a "computer programmer", so you couldn't
possibly be referring to
Stanford, could you!? Please say it ain't so, Matthew!
The Leland
Stanford Junior [
*] University is a private institution that's 1 in just a handful of premier universities for
high technology in the
world! Especially for its engineering and applied-sciences orientation, which favors
doing things, which is far more conducive to entrepreneurship than the excess of theorizing that dominates scholarship at some other prestigious universities, notably up the freeways at U.C. Berkeley. And the Business School at Stanford is reputedly no slouch, either.
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Note
*: The odd name that appears on the university's seal is the result of its founder: (silver? magnate) Leland Stanford, naming it in memory of his son: Leland Stanford
Junior, who died during childhood. Despite what might be inferred from its formal name, LSJU actually offers degree programs from undergraduate thro' doctorate, and has significantly greater enrollment for its graduate than undergraduate programs.