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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One word - access.

Strength of OCI/OCR & networks as well as quality of peers is what separates the good from the great.[/quote]

I agree with the first, but not the second. There are Ivy qualified students at every 4 year school in the US. [/quote]

NP.  Yes, probably, but not a critical mass of them.  So who cares if there are five or six kids at, say, Bucknell who could have gone to an Ivy?[/quote]

A lot of these school have more than 5-6 kids Ivy-caliber students.  Also, the research shows you'll probably have a better educational experience and more post-college success if you are in the top tier of students at a  not-super-top college than being in the middle-to-bottom at a super-top college.  If you can be in the top tier at Harvard, yay for you and yes, I'm sure you'll do great in life but you'll also do great anywhere.

It's the students at the top of the pile -- anywhere -- that benefit most from all that faculty attention, resources, etc.  The kid who didn't get into Yale (but had the stats for it) instead goes to the Honors College at Bucknell is likely to have more opportunities there than he would at Harvard where he wouldn't stand out.  
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