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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Many of you seem to suppose that the mission of MIT and other elite universities is to take the most elite HS students and make them more elite. [/b]I’m not sure that is, or should be the case. Kids coming from elite high schools with top grades can get their best education at dozens and dozens of American universities. For those kids, education is much more a function of input, than the system itself. The best use of SAT/ACT is to screen out. Probably 80-90% of kids with 4.0s can do the work at MIT. The test can screen out for the anomaly who is really not prepared. It should not be a race to get 1570 to qualify. [/quote] Ok, then why do so many elite universities, except MIT and caltech, give legacies a bump? Because that is what they are doing when they give legacies a bump -- take elite HS students and make them more elite.[/quote] +1[/quote]
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