I wouldn't change it at all. I think you were being honest, which is commendable. It's a perfect example of the attitude that permeates top-level schools, emplo

I wouldn't change it at all. I think you were being honest, which is commendable. It's a perfect example of the attitude that permeates top-level schools, employers and social organizations. An attitude most elites won't admit to. Yet we of the penny seats in life face it every day. The honesty, while infuriating, is refreshing. It's not that you were quietly or subtly ignoring those from generic schools, but that you were out and out saying what we know you are thinking "don't bother competing, you can't hang with us". It's the academic and professional version of the kind of trash talk you might hear at an inner city pick-up basketball game or an 8-mile rap battle. It's starts with why the elite are the best, and what being the best means, and ends with why the non-elites can't be part of this group and what they should do about it. You just had fewer insults about my mother, but the content was the same. It's a challenge, not much different than the challenges presented by elites to non-elites in every capacity of life. I suspect that much of what you see in the other article is merely the frustrated result of having to work just as hard as the elite guy for schooling, but then also having to beat, kick and claw their way through even minor interactions because they are being treated like a child just like in the example you provided in the original version of this article. It's a vicious cycle that creates a bad environment for everyone.