<p>Any person who applauds this trash of an article is an idiot, which pretty much sums up its author, but it does not go very far in describing the roots of motivation for other Ivy League students --many of whom DO think that they can change the world and have succeeded in their endeavors in doing so. I find it ironic of such a great american “scholar” to repeatedly represent the Ivy League as simply as Bush, Kerry, and their cronies. You’d think that his paper would be better researched than what he sees with the flick of a remote. The fact of the matter is that the kids at these Ivy League institutions are better and smarter than the rest, which could be attested to in one way through their SATs and accomplishments in high school, and you cannot simply deny this by pointing out one privileged outlier like George W bush. It is therefore then the right and the responsibility to of these institutions to give their students and future donors the opportunity to climb the ladder of mobility and succeed in the upper classes. Perhaps not until now, does the author start to realize his own pomposity, and now is trying to make up for it by pointing the finger at everyone else but himself. Deresiewicz should learn to speak and write for himself.</p>