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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please why do you think these universities have such appeal? If people are so keen on merit, why is Caltech not the number one university in America? People want their children to run shoulders with the elite that’s why. [/quote]

What on earth are you babbling on about?  There is an almost perfect correlation between the most selective universities and the best universities.  Not everybody wants to go to Caltech because not everybody is focused on tech, but obviously enough people do that it has an 8% acceptance rate.[/quote]

Define “best.” The ivies have a cachet that goes beyond the quantitative. Not sure why you this makes you hysteric.[/quote]

Wow, that's very insightful.  My point is that it's idiotic to suggest that people send their children to Harvard to rub shoulders with the elite.  The average HHI of Harvard students is $168k, hardly elite.  [/quote]

Elite does not equal just HHI.  This is what the nouveau riche don't understand.[/quote]

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