I don't know anything about the topic, but perhaps graduating Stanford offers a broader range of possible jobs than Olin does. Hence in a sense you have less to loose risking starting a company when you're an Olin graduate than a Stanford graduate?
This is definitely the case, in that Stanford offers lots of degrees not at all on founding "tracks". Doctors, theoretical physicists, etc are not somehow failed founders, they're doing a completely different thing with their lives. By being engineering-specific, Olin is totally incomparable to Stanford on this axis.
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I don't know anything about the topic, but perhaps graduating Stanford offers a broader range of possible jobs than Olin does. Hence in a sense you have less to loose risking starting a company when you're an Olin graduate than a Stanford graduate?
This is definitely the case, in that Stanford offers lots of degrees not at all on founding "tracks". Doctors, theoretical physicists, etc are not somehow failed founders, they're doing a completely different thing with their lives. By being engineering-specific, Olin is totally incomparable to Stanford on this axis.