<p>Do you think an employer is going to take an ivy league candidate over a public school candidate just because of degrees? No, they consider experience, personality, and many other factors. If you want to talk about elite. Elite does not referre to Ivy League schools. Elite represents the pioneers in education dating back to Europe. Such Universities like Cambridge, Oxford, and etc. Walk away with a degree from one of these schools and you will have your life set anywere in the world.</p>
<p>Right on man!</p>
<p>Admission officers comments to "who are your peers schools"</p>
<p>Harvard: yale pton brown LACs( no mention of even MIT) Columbia, Georgetown</p>
<p>Yale: Harvard, Pton Columbia, Berkeley
Pton: yale, Harvard, Columbia, Brown,
Columbia: Yale Harvrad, Brown, Penn, Pton
Penn: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Pton
MIT: Harvard, yale, Georgetown, Pton
stanford: HYP, HYP, HYP, HYP, HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP,HYP......................................</p>
<p>Do you have any hard evidence of this? I've visited HYPS, and the adcoms I've spoken to at every one of them considers those four to be peer institutions (Harvard and Stanford adcoms also mentioned MIT). Harvard's largest cross-admit overlap is with Stanford, then Yale and Princeton.</p>
<p>And btw, if Stanford is as terrible as you claim, doesn't it sting even more that you were rejected? :p</p>