> people from those schools are also more likely to get funding and other things like top tier employees and co-founders
You are also likely to come from a family with stable finances, and might be able to afford not working on something tied to a direct income for a while.
That may be true for Stanford and Harvard (I don’t know), but a wild majority of MIT students were there on financial aid. There was clearly a spectrum, but overwhelmingly the people at MIT did not seem to be well off.
You are also likely to come from a family with stable finances, and might be able to afford not working on something tied to a direct income for a while.