Not being from the US I don't fully grasp what these things are (is Columbia Ivy League?) but all knowing this does for me is make me conclude these qualifications don't seem to mean very much and may even be anti-correlated with intelligence - the author seems to be very sure she's making some deep social comment with this piece, but she isn't.

I'm not exactly an expert on Stoicism, but even I knew it's not about pointlessly imposing suffering on yourself: it's about caring about what you can change or improve and accepting the rest.