Ivy League Disadvantages

Ivy League colleges have as many disadvantages as they do advantages because having an elite education gives you the preconceived notion that you are superior to everyone else and also an elite education indoctrinates a false sense of self-worth. While having this superior image of yourself in mind you start to alienate yourself from the human you're supposed to be and others around you. Having a false sense of self-worth also makes you believe that you are actually more smart and invincible than you actually are. With feeling superior in general, one also believes that if you only had a traditional college education that you aren’t as smart or well-rounded as opposed to one who had an Ivy League education. While some may view this as a good
Ivy league colleges can actually hurt you more than they can help you and provide a plethora of disadvantages.
One of the first disadvantages I found was that it makes you incapable of engaging with others who had an inferior college education to you. When speaking with someone who had a typical college education one feels as if they are better than the person in question. This really isn’t the Ivy League students fault, they are taught to engage with their classmates for a period of time and forget how to make basic conversation with other people. It doesn’t mean that they think the other person is far dumber, it just means that they lost those basic conversationalist skills while attending an elite school. For example, in an article titled “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” written by William Deresiewicz, he speaks on how one day a plumber came to his house to fix his pipes. This man was standing right in his kitchen when he realized he had not even an utter clue on what to say to him. He couldn’t even scourge up a couple of seconds of small talk and it wasn’t even because his mind was blank. It was because he felt as if he had nothing to say to the man who was here to help him. He goes on to talk about all of
A lot of the schools are strictly training these teenagers and young adults for the class that they are in. They are being conditioned for one particular aspect in their lives instead of on a broader spectrum. They are being taught how to do just one thing instead of many things, but what happens when you don’t know what you want to do down the road. How are these Ivy league schools supposed to condition you then? In a TED Talk titled, “Why Some of us Don’t Have One True Calling” by Emilie Wapnick, she talks about people who have many interests and extensions rather than just one path they want to go down. During the talk Emilie says, “Raise your hand if you've ever been asked the question, what do you want to be when you grow up?” (Wapnick). This starts out as a cute question at the tender age of 3 but then gradually turns into an anxiety inducing question at the ages of 16-18 when you realize that you need to actually start thinking about your life and career in the long run. In the TED Talk Emilie speaks on how she didn't know what she wanted to do, she was worried that something was wrong because she had so many interests. She felt left out until she realized that she was a multipotentialite which is someone who has many interests and creative pursuits. Basically people are separated into two groups,