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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the end of the day, the selective private universities are nothing more than business enterprises.  They market themselves aggressively to their potential customers, with the Ivies doing it slightly better than most (and a great deal of differentiation within the group itself).  Part of their pitch to prospective students, that if you come to our school you will be surrounded by a highly-motivated, interesting and diverse (socio-economic, racial, national origin, religious) group of students, seems to work.  This pitch would be diminished if changed to, come to our school and be surrounded by the 1,600 other students with the highest SAT scores.  I certainly wouldn't want to go to that school.  Year after year, this pitch works for prospective students/parents.  Moreover, it works for the people footing the bill - enthusiastic alumni who have given billions to the universities, allowing them to fund their best-in-class financial aid programs.

Don't expect them to change anytime soon. [/quote]

I agree. A college class composed of NMSSFs (like me) would be pretty boring, unless many of us had other interests besides the library.[/quote]

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