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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Duke needs more middle class kids who have drive instead of these so called elite privates with people gaming the system.[/quote]

These days, all of the top schools are basically filled with FGLI, ultra-rich/connected prep school kids, and recruited athletes.

There are few spots for the regular-excellent middle class or upper middle class public school kid, unless you are from Idaho or something.  [/quote]

This is a very valid point. The top 10 or so seem to be exclusively filled with well-connected wealthy students, FGLI, and mediocre athletes. Some exceptions - CalTech, MIT, Johns Hopkins. But generally, excellent but unhooked middle class and upper middle class students are not getting into Duke, Princeton, and Harvard anymore. They go elsewhere. [/quote]

Yep, I have a kid at Dartmouth and it's almost entirely FGLI kids and extremely wealthy kids. Many of the wealthy are some combination of private/boarding school, athletes and legacies.  It makes for almost 2 schools in one. The two sides of the economic coin do not really mix at all. [/quote]

Same at northwestern except add in a large foreign born (wealthy) contingent that keeps to themselves.

So three segregated groups.[/quote]

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