Stanford is packed with extremely bright, ambitious students. Who can easily optimize their "beliefs and values", for getting ahead. What's the big downside,

Stanford is packed with extremely bright, ambitious students. Who can easily optimize their "beliefs and values", for getting ahead. What's the big downside, from their PoV? Being regarded as "immoral" by a few mostly-impotent-and-irrelevant idealists is probably an upside, due to the cred boost in their new in-group.