<p>For a long time, as a public university grad, I was in awe of folks from elite colleges. Then I met my first Wellesley College grad. Her reaction was…
“Huh? Wellesley? We’re just girls who couldn’t get in to Radcliffe!”
The old saying was “Barnard to bed, Wellesley to wed, and Radcliffe girls you take to the library.”
Smart, yes. Spookily brilliant not so often.
And certainly less often now that women have full access to the Ivy League.</p>