Comment by astrange

I went to SJSU (now KSU) briefly before transferring to a better school (because I slept through all of high school and didn't do any homework) and I did not get the feeling that anyone else in my classes was going to be a successful software engineer. Rather I got the feeling their parents told them to do CS because they really liked video games.

I took a group project game development class and it went beyond doing all the work in the group, I think I did all the work in the class.

Two people I know did graduate then change careers and become successful animators on Archer though.

At GA Tech the quality of students were better, but it mostly seemed to me that it worked by beating everyone to death such that you washed out if you couldn't work nonstop. They still weren't especially good eg not a single other student knew what version control was.