/competing with the best and the brightest[ the kids who built Google, e.g. my cousin went to Harvard and likes to point out that just from his *class*: for Nobel Prizes, a US VP, and two Oscar winners ]can be useful at parties: people will 'assume' you are smart, rich, or arrogant (two of the smartest people i have known went to Stanford: a law school buddy and his wife; two of the most arrogant peo