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OMG!  What makes you think someone who is focused on developing academic excellence has no time or opportunity to develop social and emotional skills, will not be able to react to stressful work situations, and make emotional connections?  [/quote]

Ummm, YOU for one, by suggesting "SOLELY" academic excellence be considered as an admission criteria.

Still haven't answered the question, also.  If Harvard thinks they are better at being Harvard by giving admissions points to recruited athletes, who are you to say they are wrong?[/quote]

Of course, I am suggesting "solely" academic excellence be considered as an admission criteria.  That doesn't mean the successful students who get admission offers are one dimensional.  They can very well develop all the other admirable soft skills, empathy, understanding, etc. by having engaged in a variety of pursuits over a long period of their young age without Harvard giving any extra points (preference) for them.  After all, I don't know about you but I never studied at Harvard and billions of other people around the world never stepped foot on Harvard campus.  It doesn't mean we are all devoid of the skills you highlighted.  As for Harvard being a private institute and so can do as it pleases, Harvard gets hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars each your in the form of research grants.  Whenever its scientists develop and patent their work Harvard benefits.  It has tax exempt status and hence it doesn't pay taxes on its revenue, be it tuition and other fee from students or profits from its endowment fund investments.  We will see in the next few years what the courts (all the way to SCOTUS) will determine.  Just because Harvard is a private university it can't do willy nilly anything it pleases.  [/quote]

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