I would never send my kids to Harvard. All the brilliant ones who ruined our country went to Ivy Leagues. Look what good that has done.
I agree.
A lot of the brilliant ones who built the country went to Harvard, too.
Over the years, I’ve interviewed scores of Harvard kids, and have had a dozen plus work for me, along with interviewing many hundreds of non-Harvard kids, and having scores of them work for me.
Basically, a Harvard kid with a respectable GPA has a 90% chance of being usefully intelligent, and a 20% or so chance of being usefully brilliant. At a good but not super-selective school (say, UNC-CH or Rochester) for someone with a respectable GPA those odds are about 25% and 5%. At a more-or-less open admission school those odds are about 10% and (in my experience) 0%, but I allow that brilliant kids from undistinguished schools tend not to be the type who want to come to New York to work in finance, so I just haven’t seen them.