[Latteland]

No one from my high school in a southern capital city went to the ivy league as far as I know. I was a top student there, ended up getting my phd in cs from a top 20 research university, but not the ivy league. I have been on the west cost for 25 years working in top tech companies as a dev and leader (faangs etc) and I have never met a single person from my undergrad school - I have met people from my grad school. Should I have had a chance to go to an ivy league school or mit etc? Perhaps, I did apply but was rejected. I felt like because I was a white kid it didn't help me out there. Today I have so many people from mit, harvard, cmu etc working for me.

But I did just fine, there was plenty of opportunity to succeed in other ways. But would the schools have benefited with a single person from my state or city, instead of more people from a big city prep school on the west coast? My family was much poorer than the typical white rich legacy at an ivy league. But i was white. Maybe it wouldn't have made a difference and I'm fortunate, I doubt it hurt me.

I don't feel like I had a bad experience, but I'm just throwing this out there for the people complaining about prejudice because they are asian. My current company is full of successful, well educated asians, yet there were almost no black devs at google. Same for women. It was partly because there weren't any to interview or hire.