This article is quite crass and is precisely the type of “trash” at which many of those you despire would turn up their noses. The author scoffs at the world’s group of most elite schools for quite unfounded (and uninformed) reasons. The answer to the title of this article is really quite obvious: the Ivies are bastions of intelligence and resource and hence are more prone to producing alumni that assume prominent positions in society. Perhaps the author should first consider reasons why the rest of non-Ivy society has NOT produced presidents and why he believes that the mere attendance at one of the aforementioned schools “poisons” the political sphere. In short, the author reveals his fundamental insecurities with his own social class rather than actually considering possible explanations for why things are the way they are.
