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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I consider below “elite”:

Harvard
Stanford
MIT
Yale
Princeton
Caltech
Penn
Chicago
Duke
Northwestern
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
Johns Hopkins [/quote]

Serious question: with the changes in admission practices, why is it worth considering most of these schools “elite”?  Getting in is no longer a signifier that the student was the absolute best, but more so that the student has rich/connected parents and/or that the students comes from a racial demographic that (applying socially fashionable racism) the admissions department has decided it prefers?

I will grant you that MIT and CalTech are prestigious.  The rest need some reevaluation at this point.  I think that, in a generation, you will see that the most successful people did not go to these schools.[/quote]

Are you serious? You honestly need a history lesson on elite college admissions if you think that is true. Having more connections and rich parents was FAR more important in the 1950s-1990s than today. These schools were not nearly as selective but still had great reputations for that entire period. In the mid 90s, Chicago had a 71% acceptance rate, Cornell over 30%, and Yale over 20%. They were higher before that too. These schools were for mostly for rich white guys from prep schools for most of their existence. That they only even considered a tiny sliver of the population didn't change that the colleges were considered elite by the general population.[/quote]

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