That the college you attend has little to do with the average lifetime salary you’ll have. The “elites” who have worked hard to get into Stanford or Yale are people who work hard and apply themselves in their vocations, so they have success because that’s how they’re wired- it has nothing to do with the “quality of their education”. The elite schools allow you to network with other highly successful people, and that’s the real value. Do you really think math at Harvard is different from math at Michigan or UVU?