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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is disputing that top colleges have better students than ones like the college you describe.  But I DO question whether there is any meaningful difference between students at a, say, top 15 vs the students at somewhere 50-75.  If there is, it’s not nearly as much as people on here seem to think. [/quote]
This. If the president of Harvard has said that about 85 percent of applicants ( pre COVID at least) would be able to do well there, but they only have space to take 7 percent of applicants, clearly those other highly able applicants who are not accepted are getting in at other schools and are highly able students. This applies to many highly rejective schools.[/quote]

Exactly. And the quality of the education they get at those other schools is strong enough to lead their students to the same outcomes they would have had if they'd been admitted to one of the highly rejective schools. It's the individual that matters, not where they went to college.[/quote]

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