I think it really depends on what kind of university you get into. If you get into a university like MIT, Stanford, CalTech, etc, there's a good chance that you'll be surrounded by a lot of entrepreneurial engineers. Even if you don't get a lot out of classes there, you'll at least meet a lot of interesting people that you can found with, or at the very least, be friends with.
Now meeting hackers at other schools is also possible, and I'd say pretty probable, if you try hard enough.
Having a network of hackers is pretty useful, especially for founding, and I think people underrate the value of relationships developed in college. There's no other environment quite like college, and even if you don't agree that the relationships built in that environment aren't uniquely valuable, I think you can probably agree that they're unique.
Now meeting hackers at other schools is also possible, and I'd say pretty probable, if you try hard enough.
Having a network of hackers is pretty useful, especially for founding, and I think people underrate the value of relationships developed in college. There's no other environment quite like college, and even if you don't agree that the relationships built in that environment aren't uniquely valuable, I think you can probably agree that they're unique.