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[quote=Anonymous]If you spent time at an elite campus, you'd know that they do a pretty great job of picking a school full of very smart, conscientious students. The problem is that those classes don't look like America - not nearly enough students from working class families of all colors, despite very generous financial aid. Using test scores doesn't do any better because those are even more skewed towards the upper middle class. There is plenty of institutional research on how well students do - they pretty much all graduate and they do really well in grad school and in their careers. But, there is no way to predict a black swan like Steve Jobs (Reed) or Barack Obama (Columbia/Harvard) or Sonia Sotomayer (Princeton/Yale) over an ordinary alum like me. No one is going to mess with success with a random experiment. Would Apple or McKinsey or Goldman randomly hire people? [/quote]
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