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I also went to an elite university from a non-elite background, and in technology, it has not benefitted me - few of the Uber rich people I met went into technology-proper, those that did are largely mediocre and not valuable connections, and as far as I know none are VCs either.

I would have rather gone somewhere like MIT or Caltech where there are fewer legacy admissions/admissions from uber wealthy feeder schools, as I feel the value of my connections would have improved. I don’t think those schools are particularly suffering for reputation either