Ivy League Grads Tell You to Drop Out Because They Credit Success to Themselves
wordgrammer · x · 2026-10-22
wordgrammer offers a psychological read on why Stanford/Ivy League grads keep telling people to drop out of college: they tell themselves their accomplishments come purely from their own hard work, not from owing a large share of success to their school.
The quoted tweet notes the irony of people with Ivy League and big tech credentials in their bios attacking Gabriel's dropout remarks — "status for me, but not for thee."
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