Students at elite schools do NOT attend "to learn facts." Most such students are smart enough to learn anything they want to learn on their own. Elite universi

Students at elite schools do NOT attend "to learn facts." Most such students are smart enough to learn anything they want to learn on their own. Elite universities like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, etc. are attended mainly (a) to interact socially with and learn in-person from other individuals who are smarter, more talented, more knowledgeable, and/or more connected in diverse ways, (b) to join a kind of 'exclusive networking club' with lifetime membership benefits, (c) to learn the rituals and norms of this club, and (d) to get a credential that also confers lifetime benefits.