the smartest ones in my highschool graduating class went to the following schools:
The University of Texas (Valedictorian) Baylor University (Salutatorian) The United States Air Force Academy (3rd in class) Texas A&M University (4th in class) University of California at Santa Barbara (5th in class)
in fact, only one member of my graduating class went to an Ivy League school...and he wasn't even in the top 25. (he went to Dartmouth)
a girl in my class went to MIT...she basically stated that it was full of prisses who thought they were the most brilliant people in the world for making it into MIT. she said if she wasn't so close to graduating she'd transfer.
these aren't exactly the positive comments you'd expect to hear from students at the most prestigious universities in America. in fact, i think it's a bigger deal to be employed by one of those school than to go to one of them.