>>When I mentioned that Harvard was a highly respected school, he said that it might have once been, but that one could get as good an education from other schools. He said Harvard was overrated.
It is beyond overrated. The only reason to go to Harvard is for connections to rich kids.
I wouldn’t hire an Ivy League grad for anything.
Ah, but you probably did....
It's all what one makes of it.
I am in a field saturated with Ivy-Leaguers. I've worked with many of them. Of the three most talented people I've worked with in my thirty-five year career, two were from the University of Maryland and one didn't finish high school.