University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School

Recent engineering graduate Mike McCauley is living the dream. During his senior year, he and two classmates launched BufferBox, a delivery service that lets consumers send packages and online purchases to secure locations for pickup. After college, the startup was accepted into the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, then Google acquired BufferBox for north of $25 million, according to TechCrunch. “I remember waking up one day and just thinking to myself, things really couldn’t get any crazier,” McCauley says. “All this is happening, and I’m not even 25.”