<p>Thanks for the insightful post, debryc. I come from a similar background, so I personally appreciate seeing the perspective of a student such as yourself.</p>
<p>In response to colt45, please don’t resort to name-calling just because you don’t enjoy an essay. While I agree that some parts of the essay did strike me as weak (sometimes annoying), as a whole I definitely enjoyed what it stated. The author was well aware of the weaknesses weasel already stated. This essay was not meant to disparage an elite education: it was written to provide insight into some possible disadvantages of a system that has far more numerous advantages. Clearly with the author’s opinion that “the advantages of an elite education are indeed undeniable” he didn’t mean to attack the institutions as much as he meant to expose a possible flaw. The points clearly don’t reflect all students at Princeton, as the author mentioned. But they do share a view that people may not consider when they think about the Ivy League.</p>
<p>I suppose, though, that since you consider a person that works as a plumber to be of less worth than a person that works as a scientist there are some fundamental disagreements here that won’t reach any sort of consensus.</p>