<p>Yes, DocT summarizes(and further elaborates) on my points perfectly. The contacts you’ll make at an ivy league school will ON AVERAGE be much more well-connected than at your average public school. If you have hundreds of millions of dollars, where do you want to send your kid? State U? No, you want to send your kid to Harvard or another Ivy League school. Therefore, we can look at it like this: Almost all obscenely rich people’s kids will go to Ivy League schools. Almost all Ivy League schools are significantly smaller than an average state school. Therefore, an Ivy League school provides a smaller environment(bigger chance to meet everyone), with a significantly higher percentage of rich, well-connected people than your average state school. It follows that attending an Ivy League school will afford you more opportunity to meet these rich, well-connected people.</p>