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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCUM is filled with prole strivers who are status obsessed. That's why. Most confident rich people don't give a damn about the Ivy League.[/quote]

Sure, that's why they try to find workarounds to buy their kids in. Les Wexner sent his kids to Harvard, Jamie Dimon sent his kids to Duke, Stephen Mandel sent his kids to Dartmouth, and so on and so forth.[/quote]

Ever notice these rich connected people, including POTUS, never try to get their kids into MIT? It's because they would likely not survive their first semester.[/quote]

Tony Stark.

The reality is schools have a lot of ways of admitting who they want to admit without it impacting their ranking stats.  With the deemphasis of standardized tests and a much lower percentage submitting, relativly few schools providing class rank (if you look at the CDS data, it is often only about 20% at selective universities with class rank reported), and high school GPAs differing greatly between schools and states (so it is not used as a USNWR input), there is not a lot of impact.[/quote]

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