Fact is, the story has better legs when it's MIT, which is one of the reasons why the top universities have a "rich gets richer" pattern. Media loves to carry s

Fact is, the story has better legs when it's MIT, which is one of the reasons why the top universities have a "rich gets richer" pattern. Media loves to carry stories about "MIT nerds invent something" or "Harvard students gain power" or "Princeton students do something posh" or "Stanford students start a company" which causes kids who want to do these things to preferentially attend these schools.