<p>For some people I suppose the issue is the one that came up when Ann Coulter “outed” Keith Olbermann that his diploma was not from the “real” Cornell, the “Ivy” Cornell, but from a mere contract college. So there’s the potential for that public humiliation … but only if you go around claiming you went to Cornell without carefully specifying every time it was not the “Ivy” Cornell. </p>
<p>Conversely, if you do attend the “Ivy” Cornell, you’ll have to deal for the rest of your natural life (and who knows, maybe into the hereafter) with the awkward matter of how to assert that fact gracefully at all appropriate moments, without drawing unnecessary attention to the fact that a distinction even exists.</p>