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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“The record 11.8 percent admission rate for Harvard's class of 1999 is significantly lower than rates at other Ivy League schools, ...“

Has it ever been easy?[/quote]

It’s never been easy for your typical kid. It’s always been significantly easier for connected kids.

I went to a NE boarding school. They told us that before about the 1990s, kids essentially signed up for HYP like you would an intramural softball team. It isn’t like that anymore, but my high school sends roughly 25% of its graduates each year to an Ivy League school. The process remains deeply unfair. [/quote]

Doesn't this just show that the [b]schools are not "all that" in the first place? It just a prestige thing, with no real value other than that. They aren't actually "better," and obviously there are thousands of brilliant students who attend other colleges.[/quote][/b]

This. 100% this. But that doesn’t mean people will stop striving for prestige. [/quote]

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