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[quote=Anonymous]The difference between so called top tier and second their schools is that most or all students at top tier schools are required to take the most challenging classes, whereas at some schools in the next tier a minority of the students are in those classes. There isn't that much of a gap, and among people in the know about this there wouldn't be much a perceived gap either. The perceived gap comes from ignorance. If 20-33% of a Big 3 school lands in an ivy league college, the mistaken assumption is that the school was more rigorous -- it taught more content, taught harder critical thinking etc. But if near 100% of the students in one school take those tough courses, but only 25% of the students in another school take the same courses, then it should be no surprise the absolute number of students in the latter school attend the same top colleages in smaller proportions. [/quote]
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