<p>I really do hope that there is no difference between HYPSM schools and other top universities, but it seems like all the Presidents come from Yale and Harvard, the Supreme Court Justices from Stanford and Harvard, and other top leadership positions generally take a disproportionate amount of talent from the HYPSM schools. </p>
<p>Is this because there was a huge difference in the past but now that difference is negligible? Or has the culture changed such that people from non-HYPSM schools are seen to be on equal footing with the top five?</p>