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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The old folks have been complaining about this process since at least the early 1960s, when Yale folded the then-less-competitive school of engineering into the school of arts and sciences. OP benefitted from a system that put less and less weight on ancestry and more and more weight on academic achievement and then — what? expected that process to stop at the exact point where it would most benefit their family forever? That’s not how a one-way ratchet works. [/quote]

This. Read fiction from the early 20th century and the talk about going to Princeton to take the entrance exam and then enrolling or not knowing what to do after boarding school and then going to Harvard. The Ivy league used to be the preserve of the wealthy, then some time post WWII, academics started to really matter. We've gotten to the point where, unless you are slap your name on a new dorm wealthy, [b]academics trump almost everything else[/b] and, thanks to financial aid, money is no longer a real barrier to entry. [/quote]

OP here. I don’t think this is true now, nor was it true when I applied 15 years ago. Most of these schools claim they can easily fill a class with valedictorians or perfect SAT scores, but choose not to.[/quote]

Look at the freshman class averages, they do. It's not hard to pass over one perfect kid for another that has betters ECs when you have thousands of applicants with near perfect transcripts. [/quote]

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