@coolguy40 you keep assuming that everyone is the same whether they went to an Ivy or not…bad assumption. The top schools have taken the cream of the crop and therefore common sense says they will continue to perform well above average, which in fact they do. They have already met a threshold that 99% of high school graduates have not. If I went to your college and picked out the top 3 or 4 students, I bet they are doing a whole lot better then the rest.