<p>Clever title. However, the article itself only points out that being a dumb$#!+ and going to an Ivy wont help you out… But, if you are smart enough to get accepted to an Ivy but go elsewhere you should do the same as an Ivy grad</p>
<p>What a novel concept – the intelligence of the person determines future success? The Ivy league is certainly not worthless, just as Stanford, Caltech, MIT, UCBerkely, etc are not worthless. The elite schools of the world are elite for a reason, they draw the best candidates. Like the article says, “If you can’t (or won’t) take advantage of what Princeton offers, Princeton does no good.” This quote could easily be changed around to say "If you can’t (or won’t) take advantage of what insert college name here offers, insert college name here does no good. Going to a good or bad school, each has different offerings to its students.</p>
<p>Top schools are at the top, period. However, you can become successful if you the applicant are a sucessful person.</p>