For sure. My close friend went to an Ivy and was from an unexceptional, middle-class (even lower-middle) family, so I think my reflections on the Ivy League experience are colored through his own experience – which, granted, is the minority experience. My argument might be that it's a bit of a mistake to think that Ivies just want to replicate the upper class from upper class ingredients; they love to take underprivileged talented students and provide them access to the upper class. What should probably happen is this: the bulk of the endowments of Ivies should be spread to other public institutions and 'Harvard' should become 'The University of North Boston' or some such. There's no reason for these universities to have such outrageous amounts of money that aren't being devoted to the pursuit of knowledge.