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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the article is getting at is that smart people with emotional intelligence go far. Basing that conclusion on Ivy schools is a little reductive however. It's a very outdated metric. There are bright students with a high emotional IQ at all sorts of schools in 2026.

But peer group and good manners do matter of course - as they have since the beginning of time. Not exactly rocket science.  [/quote]
The metric is the concentration of these people.  Far fewer in other schools.[/quote]
And a critical concentration has be reached to get the effects described in the article.  Below that critical concentration, it rarely happens.  
Ivies are the ones (most likely only ones) exceeding this critical concentration. [/quote]If it’s about a “critical concentration,” why wouldn’t an even smaller school be even better (more concentrated)? And shouldn’t it be possible to quantify and measure the concentration? I’d like to know if, as you suggest, a school that is merely at 99.99% of the “critical concentration” truly gets absolutely no benefit. Because my suspicion would be that things are not as black-and-white as that. [/quote]
[b]Not if you recruit half of the class with athletes[/b], donors, and other priorities, and test optional.  A larger school may recruit the same number of athletes but they are quickly diluted in a sea of geniuses.  With test required, these athletes are probably also very capable.  
It's just more difficult for SLACs to do this.[/quote]

Your unsupported biases are poking through. You don't want the athletes diluted, you want athletes who look like the rest of the class which is what the top SLACs have. The top SLACs create that "critical concentration" and they do while adding leadership capabilities, resilience, and discipline to the mix via their critical mass of athletes. For top SLACs the majority of the athletes are above the class median in stats; they dilute nothing while bringing other highly valued skills to the table. The correlation between sports (particularly college sports) and the executive suite is huge for men and for women the correlation of sports is even stronger for executive roles.

SLACs also over produce students moving to PhD, IB/MBB careers, top Law, Medicine, etc., it goes on and on..  [/quote]

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