"you will be a miserable misfit in the intellectually and socially elite IIT atmosphere. " It is inflated ego or lack of self respect. What does he mean by socially elite ? Does it mean that only rich and elite class apply. I am in the US, and I have never seen any American University or any American cooperation telling people who are not socially elite will be misfit here. This shows that M S Gopinathan has not come out of this feudalistic mindset.