From this, I think one thing we can deduce is that Ivy League schools select for the same criteria as SCOTUS clerks. We can probably say this is true in other f

From this, I think one thing we can deduce is that Ivy League schools select for the same criteria as SCOTUS clerks. We can probably say this is true in other fields, as well. After all, we see how successful some Ivy dropouts are: Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Matt Damon, Cole Porter, Buckminster Fuller, etc., are just examples from Harvard. It's not the Harvard education that makes one successful, but being the type of person that gets into Harvard in the first place (a person with, i.e., that same combination among old money, connections, a parent who went to Harvard, dumb luck, etc. that they look for in SCOTUS clerks). I'm not sure we have a list of people who were accepted into an Ivy and decided not to go, but I'm sure those people would be just as likely to be successful.