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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 It's a very outdated metric.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]

bingo.[/quote]

Parent of a current Ivy student who describes all of his classmates as "cracked" and says it has made him better.   [/quote]

Same. It can cause angst but boy does it push them all. [/quote]

My Ivy kid is actually surprised by how unimpressive many of their classmates are--can't do math, can't write, etc[/quote]

Not the only one to make that observation.

This article reminds me of something David Brooks would have written 20 years ago. But the idea that the Ivy schools represent some kind of meritocracy is very dead in 2026. Most talent goes elsewhere these days. [/quote]

Most talent doesn't necessarily go elsewhere out of choice, many do but it is also because most don't get in. But that doesn't change the result which is that there are about 30 Universities and 15 SLACs including the ivies which have mostly overlapping statistics for their student bodies. And, for roughly 20 of the Universities and 10 SLACS the overlap with the Ivies is very tight. Critical mass of smart kids is widely available and the T10 doesn't have a monopoly on it. [/quote]

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