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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Plenty of those kids could right to work now and do fine with a bit of training.  These top universities are not for the faint of mind.[/quote]

Well, they aren’t for the brilliant kids any more either. [/quote]

Like the legions of privileged white dudes were the most brilliant minds of the day, right? Because that's what the class make up was. Those sure were the days of brilliant kids.[/quote]

No, of course the legacy men weren’t brilliant. [/quote]

You are correct. No brilliant person ever attended a top school prior to 1990.  It was purely the dullard sons of alumni.  :roll: [/quote]

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