serious question - what is the value of stringent entrance requirements so far has it applies to your personal network? is it so that you don't have to spend r

serious question - what is the value of stringent entrance requirements so far has it applies to your personal network? is it so that you don't have to spend resources maintaining a network with those that don't meet them? for what its worth, any professional and hobbyist club with close proximity to a prestigous school will probably put you in contact with a number of people in that school you don't have to go to Harvard, MIT, Stanford wherever, to meet/ socialize with students from that school you probably have to be doing something of interest, to make yourself an attractive socialization member from the other side of that equation, but that probably true (though obviously to a lesser extent) even if your a student of one of those schools