| Perhaps it's because the graduates of these schools have to always defend their diplomas against other schools who are their peers. HYP, Stanford, and MIT are tops. They have the wow factor and have no real peers. Michigan, Cornell, Penn, and all of the rest of the top 25 schools have many peers (each other). I guarantee you that many graduates of the others have the same amount of "smugness." In Michigan's case the reason there seem to be so many "arrogant" alumni is because there are so many of them in the first place. I laugh when i read people stating that 68% of Michigan's students are from the state. That is true. I can also assure you that probably 75% of them are leaving the state after graduation. So the "arrogance" in numbers gets all over the country and world. |