A business contact of mine had a spouse who worked as a nurse in a New Jersey hospital.
She said that the hospital administration, and just about all the staff, were fawning over this new doctor who was hired because he had graduated from Harvard.
“oooooohh......Harvard!” They were swooning all over him.
Except that it was not long before is wife, and all of the other nurses, were finding that they were spending all of their time running around the hospital trying to correct his mistakes.
“This guy is a friggin’ idiot! He’s gonna KILL somebody!”
Harvard is a re-education camp, and a social club, all in one.
You get out of there with your mind right, and you are now connected to all the right people.
They take care of you, give you a place to land when you are thrown necessarily under the bus (Jay Carney), and they work to conceal your indiscretions (while, of course, documenting them).
Princeton used to churn out quite a few good young officers, once. The idea was that business owners would send their sons, get the education, serve their country, learn management, logistics, accounting, and strategy, then come home to take over the company from their fathers.
Worked for a long time.
The same is true of many miltary acadamy graduates.