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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the point of this?

Yes, private schools get a disproportionate number of their kids in each class into top 20 schools. Who is surprised???[/quote]

I don't think people are surprised necessarily. But given that admissions to top 20 schools have become exponentially more competitive over the past thirty years, people are paying more attention to who gets into these schools. There are tons of brilliant and accomplished students out there today, and yet some colleges continue to favor mid students who have nothing but their privilege as the only thing that's notable - whether its a prominent name, wealth, certain private schools like Dalton, etc.

I think Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and to a lesser extent, Stanford, have effectively become country club schools for this population. And so there's a disconnect between the prestige these colleges continue to confer and the very mediocre, but well-connected and rich students that go there. People do tend to believe that college admissions are based on a meritocracy, which people will accept. And now people are learning that HYP undergrad admissions have nothing to do with merit, which tends to bother people, given all the advantages that come with a degree from these schools. Eventually rankings and employer preferences will adjust, but in the meantime there's annoyance at the continued privileges that the children of the wealthy get in college admissions to certain schools.    [/quote]

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