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

quote:

---

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.

---

The brother of a girl I used to date, from Shreveport, graduated from Harvard. I know a guy from Lake Charles who went to Princeton. A distant cousin, from Arkansas, is a Columbia grad, as is my GF, who is from New Orleans. People from the South can and do go to the Ivy League and succeed.