1. Borry an older friend's yearbook from his or her freshman year.
2. Pick ten seniors from that year who your friend recalls as having their acts together, who studied and worked hard, and seemed to take their futures seriously.
3. Google them or look them up on Facebook and see if you can find out where they went to college and what they’re doing now.
Are the ones who went to less selective colleges living substandard lives compared to those who went to prestigious schools? I’ll bet they’re not.
PS: Please don’t email me to point out that those who went to highly selective colleges are successful. I expect those students who worked hard enough to get into those schools to be successful. But they didn’t magically transform into successful people just because they went to Yale. They were pretty impressive already.