u/michaelnovati replied ·
I know one of the founders of Palantir and have been following them for 10 years and I also have hired a ton of interns and new grads from Stanford at Facebook.
If you want to stay in Silicon Valley and at top tier elite tech your whole career then I would consider it, or consider deferring for a year to see if you get converted full time.
I have a couple of friends that dropped out and have had fantastic careers, made many many millions of dollars, and everything worked out fine. They had very high test scores and probably would have met the requirements for this thing.
I also know several Thiel Fellows and they are doing well in the Silicon Valley ecosystem still but they didn't have the same meteoric success yet and I would recommend going to big tech if you drop out.