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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does elite mean here?

Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and perhaps Princeton & Yale are elite.

Cornell, Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Duke, etc. etc. are not.

And yes, even Harvard/MIT/Stanford/Princeton/Yale won't give your kid a $150k job, wealthy spouse (a 1950's reason to go to a elite school, but okay), and a wealthy, highly-connected friend group off the bat. And thank god for that.

The purpose of top schools is to have top professors and top students to learn from and compete with, and improve oneself in the process. Not a $150k job, wealthy spouse and highly-connected wealthy network.

What these schools do provide beyond the education though is a pedigree that lasts through 40+ years of one's careers, and certainly can come in handy down the line - if you want to use it.

As for the rest - Cornell, Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Duke, etc., [b]most people [/b]do not view these schools to be more "elite" than top state flagships like Berkeley, Michigan, etc. Most will consider these students to either be wealthy dumb kids (too dumb for HYPSM) or top middle-class kids, the same that attend top flagships. 
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Who are most people? Just cause you say it doesn’t make it so.[/quote]

Seriously. Some really deranged folks on here who find gratification spewing nonsense on Internet forums at some ill-conceived hope of hoarding an imaginary measure of prestige in an imaginary zero-sum game. I genuinely pity these people's children.[/quote]

In SoCal, USC’s rivalry is is with UCLA. [/quote]

what does that have to do with absolutely anything[/quote]

USC rivals with UCLA - not Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton...[/quote]

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