Are Ivy league students really superior to students in state universities?

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I'd like to see a full audit of Ivy League schools to see if the SAT scores there are accurate. I could so easily see them using a metric other than a crude calculation of the mean scores of all their students. Perhaps discounting affirmative action or padding their scores by having many of the 2400s being foreign Chinese students who are well known to cheat.

That being said, graduating an Ivy League school will open many doors to you because even if it's not totally rational, businesses have a lot of respect for the school name and big businesses will have many Ivy League graduates who will extend an extra helping hand to other Ivy League graduates.

As for whether or not they're all better students, I didn't go to an Ivy League school and I knew plenty of students who easily could have gotten in. I'd bet that virtually everyone at Ivy League schools is at least a good student, if not a great student, but it's not like all Ivy League students are better than all non-Ivy students.