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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can not believe how many of you affluent advantaged people are now online rallying against this.  Have you no shame? As you no empathy? Have you no understanding? This is not designed to hurt your kids, but to help other kids.[/quote]

Because it dumbs down our colleges and our country.  [/quote]

I'm not defending the adjustment, but No it doesn't dumb anyone or anything down. There are enough colleges and universities in the country for anyone who can pay or get the funds to go. Smart rich kids will get a degree, probably two, and continue to be smart rich adults. If it means a handful of rich kids don't get the "marketing prestige" schools, they will still be more than fine (most of my successful colleagues did not attend prestige schools but they knocked it out of the park everywhere they went). The affluent, and in fact most people, do not need the prestige schools to succeed. Kids coming from adversity might, and your attitude is a huge part of the reason why. You assume a lot when you see that Harvard sweatshirt, and you barely notice the ones you haven't heard so much about. But neither tells you as much about the person wearing it as you think it does. For the adversity kid, the Harvard sweatshirt opens a whole new world; the rest of us don't need the sweatshirt (and probably wouldn't wear it anyway).

Maybe the true end result of this will be that we can finally abandon the ridiculous and meaningless attempt to "rank" universities.[/quote]

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