I'd be kind of curious to see more data, both for more schools & more years, and also to follow this "top 1%" through the years. On the one side, I'm curious if this is actually a good predictor of what hot companies are, and three years and a dozen people isn't enough data to make that sort of call. How many people were joining Google in 2005? How many were joining Microsoft?
On the second part, I'm a little curious to see how people's tastes in workplace mature over time. A fantastically smart, driven, awesome guy just out of school is still fundamentally a dumb kid with no work experience. Some of the top CMU graduates from 2002/3/4/5 presumably switched jobs in 2011. Did they go to the same companies as the graduates of 2010/2011? Which companies from 2005/6/7 retained the most of their fresh-out-of-college top 1% hires?
On the second part, I'm a little curious to see how people's tastes in workplace mature over time. A fantastically smart, driven, awesome guy just out of school is still fundamentally a dumb kid with no work experience. Some of the top CMU graduates from 2002/3/4/5 presumably switched jobs in 2011. Did they go to the same companies as the graduates of 2010/2011? Which companies from 2005/6/7 retained the most of their fresh-out-of-college top 1% hires?