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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, it’s a real problem. You aren’t going to find a T20 that isn’t largely populated by Tracy Flicks. Sorry. [/quote]

Especially nowadays given what it takes to get into a t 20. Might have been different 25 years ago [/quote]

25 years ago you could get the disorganized geniuses who walked into the SATs and got 1600 without studying and who kept up a 3.7 or so GPA by never doing the homework but acing the tests. Perfect and intense executive function wasn’t a skill set universally required for admissions back then. But the admissions have changed to essentially remove the quirky geniuses from the student population, because you are only getting into a T20 if you have the executive functioning skills of a mid-career project manager. Hence schools populated almost entirely by Tracy Flicks. Even the athletes are Tracy Flicks. It’s kind of bizarre. [/quote]

This is a great way of describing the phenomenon.

It’s not just “disorganized geniuses” that don’t get into these schools. Even “normally functional geniuses” don’t get in. I’m thinking of the kid that is incredibly bright and intensely knowledgeable about things that interest him or her, but who aren’t driven to achieve perfection — for the sake of perfection— in areas that they don’t care about. [/quote]

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