Why do you want to go to an Ivy League university instead of a state university?

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"There’s a well-known anecdote about a student from UT-Austin with a 4.0 who was interviewing with a top investment bank. The first question he was asked was “Why should I hire you over a 3.8 from Harvard?”

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<p>I trust that the UT-Austin applicant was intelligent enough to realize that the guy who asked this question was a moron – probably an Ivy League graduate.</p>