So many ambitious high schoolers dream of attending an Ivy League college. In fact, nearly 250,000 students in total applied to the eight Ivy schools last year, according to IvyCoach.com.

In the early 1980s, Bracken Darrell found himself at a crossroads.

He “really wanted to go to an Ivy League school,” he told Adam Bryant of The New York Times, but thought he’d never be able to pay for it.

So instead, he went to a smaller liberal arts college — Hendrix College — in Conway, Arkansas, where he read more >>>

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