What goofy principle is this? Conservatives should prefer the private over the public sector except when it comes to college, when going to a state school is the sign of being a true American? I attended an Ivy undergrad (Harvard) and a flagship state school (U of I at Urbana) grad, and my impression was that the Harvard undergrads were smarter *on average*. Is saying that some colleges have smarter grads than others *on average* or that brains matter "elitist"?
Not at all, what I’m saying is that there is a perceived notion regarding Ivy League grads that they are somehow “superior”.
Besides, from what I paid to attend a state school, it did feel like paying for a private institution.
My experience is that Harvard types are most assuredly *not smarter*, on average.
My experience is that on average, ivy leaguers are usually more indoctrinated and ideological than you would expect from the educated. Furthermore, this class of school is leading the charge on stopping any voice that it deems non-PC.
State schools routinely produce the finest doctors, physicists, research, etc. Time to face it, Ivy has become a boarding school for the spawn of a certain political class, but thats largely it.