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<p>What is the complex that so many people here have about the Ivies? It’s as annoying as the people who think that the Ivies are the only schools worth going to and that their lives will be ruined if they don’t get in.</p>
<p>I didn’t go to an Ivy (though some might lump my alma mater in with them for purposes of this sort of discussion), but I was right down the street from Harvard and had the opportunity to interact with people there. And yes there are undeserving legacies (keep in mind that not all legacies are undeserving), spoiled brats, etc, but most of the students there are not. They are perfectly reasonable people. None of the people in my high school who got into the Ivies, that I can recall, were legacies or brats…they were smart kids who had worked very hard and accomplished a lot.</p>