Why do you think there's such an undue attention paid to the ivies? I'll give you two variants of an answer to that question. One is a little bit flip, but i think there may be something to it. And especially the low income students who end up coming to a place like brown,. who wind up having wildlyu ful careers. It's hard for me to imagine that that would have happened if they'd gone to their local community college.
Enrollment is down for the first time in memory, and critics complain college is too expensive, too elitist, and too politicized. The economist Chris Paxson — who happens to be the president of Brown University — does not agree. (Part 3 of “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)