>>13583455The biggest problem with Ivy Leagues is both the sheer importance of making it to the top in many fields, and the fact that these institutions have arbitrary low admission rates because of clumsy and apathetic management and the mass inclusion of foreign students and educated recent immigrants (brain
drain to American soil). An admit rate of like 1-10% for a pool of mostly qualified applicants is a very serious problem because it means either the institution needs to become more academically selective or it needs to expand to accommodate a larger student body. The more prestige becomes a gamble, the less socially legitimate it becomes. And it's unwise to have a lot of really smart people slipping through the cracks because they're not going to be politically friendly to the existing system (if it gets bad enough). It amounts to that petty babyboomer mentality of just not caring about anything, not being willing to do much to solve an obvious social problem
