This woman implicitly, but maybe unintentionally hits the main point as it relates to her book: attending an elite university does not make women more attractive for long term relationships. Certainly, education is an attractive trait among women. However, the cutoff after which attending a better university results in no marginal attractiveness happens far below the HYP level. It is not surprising, therefore, that women such as Ms. Patton, upon graduation and entering the real world, find that they can no longer attract the mates that they are used to and that they feel that they “deserve”.
Males who attended elite universities like Princeton are typically successful in their careers and have above average financial resources. These men do not need to attract women of the highest professional and academic caliber to supplement their household income, nor do they desire a spouse of elite academic pedigree to convey legacy status to their children for the purposes of university admissions. Instead, these men will gravitate towards women who are lesser in these respects, but superior in terms of appearance and congeniality. The cards have been reshuffled, and women from elite universities no longer hold the advantage that they believed they had.
Now, also consider that women at HYP are ugly. Women at MIT, Caltech and Stanford are even worse. These women have spent their formative years studying alone, rather than nurturing the characteristics that could have made them more attractive adult women. So not only do these women not have an advantage in dating from their superior academic standing, but they often are disadvantaged since they have sacrificed other skills in order to strengthen their academic records.
Thus, the optimal strategy for these women is to, while in college, “lock in” a naive and inexperienced male, since after graduation, these women will lose their advantage of fishing in a pre selected pool.
The women who are offended by this are fools, undoubtedly driven to rage by their ineluctable hormonal imbalances. Everyone wants to get married at some point. Everyone wants to marry a superior mate. To women, a Princeton or similar male is almost always preferable to a male of lesser pedigree, all else equal. If locking in a college spouse results in the highest probability of attaining such a relationship, then it is the optimal strategy.
The list in that article, however, makes no sense, and is likely the drunken rambling of a recently divorced and possibly depressed menopausal woman.