You think all 40,000 per year are going to be successful if they coast? And doesn't it require some tenacity to get into an Ivy school, meaning they're the type of person less likely to coast? This comment comes off as somewhat sour.
Ivy schools are famously cagey about the number of "legacy" admissions, but the best research suggest they weigh legacy many times more than any other criteria, and legacy admissions make up some %15 of the total. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/us/legacy-admissions-coll...
Naturally now they are sending their children to private school, their children are not being handed everthing on a plate and their grades are great accomplishments.
Envy really does destroy the functional parts of the brain where intellectual honesty resides.
The difference between the ivies and the others is that the dumbest person at an ivy may well be its richest.
Make of that what you will.