Is it common for high achieving students mostly go to state flagships?

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He observed that the Harvard grad students were generally somewhat less than impressed with the Harvard college undergrads.

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<p>Several friends who are/were PhD students before graduating would concur. </p>

<p>I myself noticed this while taking some classes at H and at Columbia. </p>

<p>However, some of the latter’s undergrads also had some contempt for the grad student population underscored by a cartoon contemptuously depicting Columbia grad students as homeless people digging through the trash published in the mid-'00s. </p>