re: Student turns down entire Ivy League for University of Alabama

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Nobody ever said ivy league schools aren't great. But you can't send any kid from the south up to Harvard and expect them to succeed. I'm not even talking about school either. You think these "old money" kids want to hang out with some middle class kid from the memphis suburbs? Probably not. The real connections people are talking about aren't as easy to make as people are led to believe.

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You sure about that? I heard a story about this black kid very similar to this one that came from a very poor family in Hawaii and attended Harvard and he did ok even though he had ZERO connections before he got there. In fact, he is currently changing the world more than any of the white rich kids who attended with connections.