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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the article is getting at is that smart people with emotional intelligence go far. Basing that conclusion on Ivy schools is a little reductive however. It's a very outdated metric. There are bright students with a high emotional IQ at all sorts of schools in 2026.

But peer group and good manners do matter of course - as they have since the beginning of time. Not exactly rocket science.  [/quote]
The metric is the concentration of these people.  Far fewer in other schools.[/quote]

This is it, it’s not the same despite what everyone wants to believe.[/quote]

Isn't the absolute number of 1%ers on SAT much larger than it was decades ago?  Because the Ivies haven't expanded enrollment, a lot of top kids must go elsewhere.  More than in the past.  I think that's why some schools' reputations have strengthened significantly...more top students exist to attend them.  Plus the prepping/grinding culture has spread along with American economic uncertainty. So there are tons of high stat kids with hooks not at Ivies.

https://www.economicstrategygroup.org/publication/the-small-role-of-ivy-league-schools-in-us-higher-education/

"America’s elite institutions can certainly take steps to play a larger role in the higher education landscape – most prominently perhaps is expanding access, something done by only a few of these schools very recently. In fact, while America’s colleges and universities awarded nearly 1 million more bachelor’s degrees in 2022 compared to 1990, Ivy League schools accounted for just 3,539 (or 0.35 percent) of that increase."

I don't believe that Ivy-educated people can become more powerful in an population where their numbers are getting diluted.

I also think there is evidence that academic and ethical culture is very messed up at top schools just as well as at lower-ranked schools.  So not sure that past results as measured by retrospective studies predict future performance.[/quote]

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