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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Ehh...I was drawing a corollary between current college admissions process and a medieval religious belief that some people are born to be saved and go to  Heaven, while most people are not.  You know who the saved are because they are born to be more obedient to God.   Then people spend their entire lives trying to prove to themselves and everyone else that they were born one of the saved.  
I am aware that gaining e trance to Harvard isn’t the same as gaining entrance to Heaven.  But the idea that some people are born with innate qualities that will be proven through certain actions seems pretty similar.  [/quote]

I don't understand what you don't understand. For example, have you seen Katie Ledecky? Many more are working as hard as she is, some even harder, true some things may be different, like support from family, nutrition, and so on, and all these factors add something to the equation, but in the end that level of performance has to do with some innate ability or convergence of aptitudes. [/quote]

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