Given that the main function of universities these days is filtering and signaling, the best move is to get admitted to Stanford and then drop out.
They're not even that good at filtering. Which in turns means their signal won't be worth much either pretty soon.
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Top brands don't need to be contrarian and right. They can be consensus and right. :)
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Alumni network effects will take some time to die down - maybe a decade.
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Brands last more than that.
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"shouldn't be worth much" is not the same as "isn't worth much". It may be mispriced currently and it may be mispriced in the future.
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Especially with solutions like
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How about a reverse Lambda School ? Recruit students in top colleges, pair them with mentors that help them land great opportunities, then convince them to defer, and eventually drop, their degrees. Going to college needs privilege, dropping out needs even more. Arbitrage that ?
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This is the Thiel Fellowship in a nutshell.
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I think you could build a model showing that if society is dysfunctional enough (meaning success becomes sufficiently unrelated to quality) then being bad at filtering stops being an issue.
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still better than no filter
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I think Harvard and Stanford can be "wrong" longer than y-combinator.
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