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<p>YMMV depending on the individual student. That wasn’t the experience of my Yalie '70 uncle nor HS friends who attended the Ivies or peer elite institutions with the exception of schools like MIT, Caltech, Reed, CMU, Swat, UChicago or other “hard schools”.</p>
<p>However, there are also others who would agree with that. Depends on the individual elite college student and their academic level. </p>
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<p>True. Rightly or wrongly, most people tend to have higher expectations of those who attend elite educational institutions. </p>
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<p>Another YMMV as this depends on the individual student. I’ve observed students at several elites feel that way while others could give 2 figs about externally imposed expectations. </p>
<p>Some in the latter group took it to the point of extreme slackerism as shown by a few past elite college alum colleagues who ended up getting fired within weeks/months of being hired or an Ivy engineering grad/son of some senior exec at my Uncle’s* civil engineering firm who ended up being parked as said uncle’s secretary. </p>
<p>The firm felt this was the best way to ensure said grad could do the least damage without firing him and risk incurring the wrath of that senior exec who was extremely fond of him. </p>
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<li>Uncle’s an elite school graduate himself(Columbia SEAS BSCE/MSCE late '50s).</li>
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