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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most overrepresented student at Yale is the private school graduate. By far. That will NEVER change.[/quote]

64% of matriculants came from public high schools.
36% of matriculants came from independent day, boarding, and religious schools.

when you say "by far" what does that mean? 
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Only 10% of American kids go to private high schools. Filling over a third of your incoming class with them is very disproportionate.[/quote]

Lets be honest, private school kids for the most part are far better trained than the average public school kid. Easy to defend, just blame the k-12 system because that is where the issue lies.[/quote]

if that is true why doesn't MIT take a higher share of private school students? Or why don't Ivy League school take more kids from Stuyvesant and Hunter? the answer is because Ivy League schools have non-academic criteria that favor the rich and connected. [/quote]

also because you didn't look into the numbers enough to see it's not the big giant difference you think, [/quote]

I am sure that it isn't what you are hoping to find. Step one would be to see if you can find application differences. Do that then report back. What you are trying to say is that the Ivies have criteria which do not favor incessant grinding of math and sciences which is what happens in the communities which you describe because that is what was successful where they came from. Chinese, Indian, Korean, and Japanese universities are focused on training large numbers of engineers. They have public schools and we also have public schools for that. Quit trying to bend private universities to what you want. They have every right to do what they want.[/quote]

So they can say Whites only?
Or no jews?
Of COURSE they can't do whatever they want.
Can we condition their receipt of federal dollars on them doing what we tell them?  Of course!
Can we condition the deductibility of donation made to them on them doing what we tell them?  Of course!

The attack on higher education is not a temporary thing.  The one area where trump has consistently seen good polling is his treatment of colleges.
EVERY republican is taking note.
Being woke will drawing a target on your own back[/quote]

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