>This isn’t because Yale made them a better person - it’s because they were to begin with. There’s actually been research that corroborates your hunch. They lo

>This isn’t because Yale made them a better person - it’s because they were to begin with. There’s actually been research that corroborates your hunch. They looked at students who were accepted to top schools and attended lower schools for a variety of reasons. Those students did as well as the cadre who attended top schools, indicating it was the schools selecting students who were already on track to be successful rather than helping those students become successful. The one exception was students who came from a low socioeconomic class. They did benefit from attending top schools.