This is not limited to the Ivies: http://www.sa.sc.edu/leaders/ http://www.sa.sc.edu/leaders/ Of course, this is the same phenomenon on a larger scale. Nowhere

This is not limited to the Ivies: http://www.sa.sc.edu/leaders/ http://www.sa.sc.edu/leaders/ Of course, this is the same phenomenon on a larger scale. Nowhere tries to be "normal". Visit the website of any college or university: it will claim to be exceptional. But is that such a bad thing? I for one, want to be around the sort of people who push others, the organizations they belong to, and themselves. And I aspire to be such a person as well.