Going to an Ivy provides you with access to better jobs in various fields especially finance, media, law. This is an antidote but a girl in our HS ( Top 2 program in Nassau). Got into Harvard with a B average (no clue what her SATs were) studied PHILOSPHY!!!! Went to work at Goldman Sachs for 5-7 years and now is the head of trading at a $20 billion head fund. I work with a girl who went to a mid tier Ivy and frankly admits to me that she would not have gotten in with out lax. She is a portfolio manager. ALL that banks and investment management houses will not look at you for a front offfice whole without pedigree. PERIOD. Ivy gets you that initial access. All this being said.. I am a believer that hard work evens things out throughout life | 
