Now you're ready for the next observation. Which is to really understand the mentality of people from those institutions. Imagine if you took these two premise

Now you're ready for the next observation. Which is to really understand the mentality of people from those institutions. Imagine if you took these two premises as true: 1) Harvard is the most selective and high level educational institution in the world, it's full of the absolute smartest people alive. That's how I ended up here. 2) Now that I am actually here, it appears that there's a bunch of people at Harvard that honestly aren't all that bright. You then have to pick from one of two obvious conclusions: A) Maybe Harvard actually isn't full of the smartest people in the world. B) Wow, since we know the dumbest person at Harvard is smarter than the smartest person at a state school, people who went to state school must be total fucking idiots. Guess which worldview your average Harvard student tends to gravitate towards?