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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good kids are getting rejected from top schools, because top schools no longer care about academic excellence as much as they care about "Diversity"
There are very few students who meet ALL of the following criteria
1) Top 1-3% of graduating class
2) 1550 in SATor 35 ACT or higher in test scores
3) National AP scholar.
4) 750 or higher in 2 Subject Tests

These are truly gifted students. All of them could easily be accommodated in the top 15 schools, many times over, but most don't get in, because top schools are obsessed with diversity.

[b]This is a tragedy for this country in the long run,[/b] because as any economist will tell you, we are grossly misallocating some of the best resources of our academic institutions on some very questionable talent, instead of focusing them on talent that can benefit the most from them and consequently turbocharge the US economy into the next generation.

But eh. Becoming fat, dumb and careless is probably necessary for the baton to pass from the US to some other nation. That's the way history has worked[/quote]

Huh?  Are these students just going to not go to college and drop out of the potential work force because they haven't been admitted to a top college?
Lol. 
No, they're going to go to other colleges, get educated and they'll do well and learn what they need to learn at the schools they attend.  Then they will go on to succeed in the workforce.

[b]You are posting as if their life and their future contribution to society will END if they don't attend a top 15 university. 
This thinking is SO WARPED. [/b]
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[b]No. I am saying that the country's best educational resources should be opened up to the most academically gifted students first. Then to others as space permits [/b]because that is better for the country in the long run. Of course these students will do well even if they go to podunk state, but forcing then to go there just because some clueless administrators value "diversity" and want to inefficiently expend a country's scarce resource on less academically gifted students to virtue signal and feel righteous is a terrible social policy[/quote]

It has literally never been the case that university acceptances followed this algorithm.  And you take it as an article faith that the most rejective schools provide the “best academic resources”.  But you don’t actually know that they do.  You have no basis of comparison aside from vague notions of reputation and what you think will impress your neighbors. Certainly a large number of factors used in USNWR have only a tangential relationship to quality of education.  Endowment MIGHT lead to better education, but money has to actually be spent on teaching facilities and professors.  The new volleyball arena or residence hall with on site fluff and fold don’t move the needle much.

People need to realize a really bright and motivated kid can still have pretty much any future they want at most any of universities ranked 1-200.  Unless that future thing you really want is access to the Yale Club.   It’s an old boys network by another name.  [/quote]

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