“It’s great to pretend that everyone in the Midwest is too sophisticated to get caught up in what you guys believe is a NY/Menlo Park phenomenon…”
Haha. Not too sophisticated, mainly just unaware. For most people in Michigan, they have no real thought that this is even possible. Their aspirational schools are Michigan and Michigan State. Most of them with get into neither. Most will attend Grand Valley, Western Michigan, Oakland U, Central Michigan, Wayne State, or a local community college.
They weren’t above the fray, they just never really knew it was possible. Ivy League schools are far away and few people know anything about them.