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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the article is getting at is that smart people with emotional intelligence go far. Basing that conclusion on Ivy schools is a little reductive however. It's a very outdated metric. There are bright students with a high emotional IQ at all sorts of schools in 2026.

But peer group and good manners do matter of course - as they have since the beginning of time. Not exactly rocket science.  [/quote]
The metric is the concentration of these people.  Far fewer in other schools.[/quote]

bingo.[/quote]

Parent of a current Ivy student who describes all of his classmates as "cracked" and says it has made him better.   [/quote]

Same. It can cause angst but boy does it push them all. [/quote]

If you aspire for your child to be a societal and environmental menace, by all means these schools with a statistically higher concentration of sociopaths will push them.

Some people aspire to more than that, however.[/quote]

A disproportionate number of medical breakthroughs come from their grads, a disproportionate number of NGOs are run by their grads.  [/quote]

Doesn’t disprove what I said.

Also, LOL to your naivete if you think there isn’t a significant amount of personal financial gain in these alleged medical breakthroughs and NGOs.[/quote]

Your criticism want that these kids had successful careers (that would be a very strange criticism).  Your criticism was that their success was at the expense of our environment and society. [/quote]

Again, your point doesn’t disprove what I said. For example: Leonardo DiCaprio does all sorts of activism on behalf of the environment, but he is actually an environmental menace.

And let’s talk about the medical problems these little angels first CAUSE before we laud them for their alleged medical breakthroughs. [/quote]

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