I'm the wrong person to write this post. I already hated Ivy League Schools. Right away I began this post and invective already flowed that had you read it would lose me friends. Powerful ones...
There should no more be such a thing as the Ivy League than there should be billionaires or a corporate monopoly. Any institution powerful enough to dictate government policy should be broken up. The holdings of Harvard and Yale should be held by ten unaffiliated schools, old buildings and dorms be damned. The same should go for Princeton and UPenn, and the same for non-Ivies like Stanford and MIT. None of these schools should be more influential than the average liberal arts college where students go to smoke weed and write a thesis about juggling. The richest schools, with the most prestigious professorships and most ambitious students, should be the state schools; where future policy makers are forced to interact with those tens of thousands of peers most affected by the policies they'll implement. It'll go the other way too: the other students will see that the best students are real human beings, hardly different from them. The only real difference? The best students are more boring.
I need a few more days on this one...
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