<p>The students who don't get into the Ivy League do not automatically go to State Universities. Most of the kids at our school who are super qualified but don't get into Ivies go to schools like Georgetown, Williams, Johns Hopkins, Middlebury, Northwestern, U. Chicago, etc. They have plenty of chances to make contacts, and ultimately how well you do in life is of your own making., not where you wqent to college.
Steve Jobs came from as blue collar family and went to Reed (for a while). I doubt he is crying in his soup that if only he had been a legacy and gone to Harvard, he would have achieved more.
Ivies like Harvard and Yale have ridiculous endowments - they could expand as much as they want to. But in reality, there is not a shortage of college spaces for students in this country. It's just that everyone wants to go to the same colleges.</p>