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[quote=Anonymous]NP here. Honestly, this is an illusion. Not taking anything away from the Ivy league colleges, they are genuinely fine institutions, but they are no longer "the best". The "best" has become a really fluid concept, and the Ivy obsession would have made more sense in the 1980's than it does today.

Today we have so many excellent public high schools - you can tell US News ran out of breath listening the top 2000 and [i]then[/i] the "Nationally Ranked" and "Nationally Recognized" ones, and I don't even think that list covers all the Blue Ribbon high schools in America - and well-educated middle class kids gunning for the best grades and best educational experience, that it just isn't realistic to think that the Ivies are going to scoop up the best talent. Too many talented kids are graduating from high school with college aspirations.

Meanwhile, hundreds of non-Ivy colleges have found that there is a need for great education, and now you have a fleet of schools with big endowments that are chasing after the best talent every year.

The Ivies get amazing kids, but put it in perspective here - it is a [i]big[/i] world, and there are a lot of amazing kids who have done really well and made their non-Ivy alma maters proud.

I'm a recent Boston College graduate. I work at a firm in Boston. As a BC student, I met incredibly smart kids at BC, Tufts, Wellesley, Brandeis and even BU (lol) that impressed me as much as anyone I ever met from those two schools "across the river", as they liked to refer to themselves. (Never mind that Tufts is "across the river" too.)  And after spending the past 6 years in Boston, 4 as a student and 2 as a young professional, let me tell you that it really doesn't matter where you graduated from. You would be surprised how little the students here care about Harvard and MIT. Nobody is in awe of them and nobody thinks themselves inferior to those students.[/quote]

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