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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of the posts on this thread exemplify what’s wrong and uninteresting about the Ivies. Many of the UMC kids that get in are not compelling students or people, but their parents will do ANYTHING to get them admitted. Then, you have the truly rich and well-connected, who associate with each, but no one else. [b]Throw in the test-optional URMs, Pell grant kids, who are great people, but not the brightest [/b]or best connected of the application pool. Finally, you have the middle to UMC kids who are genuinely bright and thought they’d meet their academic peers, only to find out that three-quarters of the class is nothing like them. Whatever. [/quote]

Hold up, Sis. You lost me with this veiled racism. Basically you’re saying that any poor brown kid at an Ivy must me intellectually inferior. Go pound sand. [/quote]

Amen. Firstly,  there are not that many URM kids at Ivies at all! The ones I've met are interesting, talented and bright,  and some of them have overcome real challenges. [/quote]

+1.  Folks entitlement is out of hand.  The greater majority of URM kids at elite universities are not slackers.  And some aren’t starting out the game of life on 3rd base.[/quote]

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