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One thing recent history has taught us is that Ivy Leagues are very good at pumping out individuals that know how to win at all costs, with 0 regard for actual

• wayoutthere 5y ago
  The admissions process is a filter that selects for this. They also build class cohorts to include hierarchy climbers with people who were born at the top of the hierarchy — children of billionaires, politicians, etc. that perpetuate those hierarchies (and their accompanying morality). Ivy League schools are designed to be a filter for people who would make good amoral agents of capital, not an educational system in the classical sense.
  • strikelaserclaw 5y ago
    influential people's children who couldn't hack it in the traditional test based university admissions process in their own home countries love the ivies, i.e asian countries. There are a ton of brilliant people who go to ivies on their own merit but we can't deny that ivies do play a part in keeping the elite power structure intact (as you said). It is the same old game of capital vs labor, capital always seems to win out.