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Maybe Cal Tech, Princeton and Harvard will still get a lot of rocket scientist sharks because they have such great aid, but the extracurricular requirements the Top 30 schools are setting effectively shut out bright, dreamy kids who are reading, writing and creating on their own. Those are great kids, and they’re going to be flowing to the state flagships. The schools ranked about 8 through 30 looks as if they’re on track to enroll rich kids plus obedient little admissions robots who think they’re all going to be tech company founder billionaires. They’re planting the seeds for their own decay. 
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So much ignorance combined with hyperbole and misplaced scorn. Why denigrate the science kids as “rocket scientist sharks”? And weren’t you aware that the “creative kids” have Cooper Union, Pratt, RISD, Julliard, Curtis, Oberlin, and some more (and some of these are pretty cheap, if hard to get into). That said, the schools 8-30 that you scorn include such havens for creative types as Oberlin, Reed and Vassar.

I have no dog in this fight. My kids are at Columbia and UMD’s computer science program (with his Blair classmates). [/quote]

Also: any kid with ECs is rich or an “admissions robot”? Where does all that bitterness come from?[/quote]

PP thinks top universities should take her “dreamy,” solitary kid based on, what, her say-so? You actually do need to prove you have talent. What’s so hard about joining the school literature magazine, or a local teen orchestra? For art school you need a portfolio—so do it.

Scratching my head. [/quote]

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