I mean it's not like Stanford, MIT, Harvard, etc. aren't top-notch places, but you don't have to have gone to one of those to be good at what you do. They also cost a fair penny and we're not all rich or academically-oriented enough to win scholarships.
(BTW, I do get it. It's a CYA thing. Nobody ever got fired for hiring/funding a top-ten grad...)
Additionally, I could not be more thrilled with the high number of non-traditional CS schools in the top 20.
...and that's what happens when you ignore other studies in favor of STEM :P
I hope in the future that more Canadian Universities students get involved in events like this as we have an abundance of talented people who have something to prove.
Problem being is that most of these events are hard to get to since they are located in the United States.
MLH will be working with those schools and potentially others to get some Canadian hackathons on the roster for the spring.
And a list of all MHacks Fall 2013 hacks: http://mhacks.challengepost.com/submissions
And a list of all HackMIT Fall 2013 hacks: http://hackmit.challengepost.com/submissions
hackNY Fall 2013: https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/fall-2013-hackny-stu...
HackRU Fall 2013: https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/hackru-fall-2013/hac...
On the flip side, since I'm at Berkeley, I can just take a 30 min. BART ride to SF if I want to go to a hackathon. It's interesting that the collegiate hackathons tend to be on the East Coast, but lot's of startup/business related ones crop up on the West.
They were sending buses all across the country every weekend.
I report, you decide!
