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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"It’s been a while since top students could assume they’d get into top schools, but today, they get rejected more often than not."

So then [b]all these top students are going to "second-rate" schools. But the thing that makes schools top-rate is mostly the students, which makes those second-rate schools ... top.[/b]

The teaching at most colleges is going to be good, because there's a surplus of good academics. So if you go to a school with many classmates who are smart, engaged, and motivated, you're probably going to end up with a good education, whether that's a top 10 school or a top 50 or even top 100 school. [/quote]

Poor use of the transitive property.
There are second tier students at second tier schools. Plenty of them. I’m not saying they are underperformers or unintelligent by any means. But the average kid at Villanova is not the average kid at Princeton. No way.
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Sure, but 
1) if you didn't get into Princeton and did get into Villanova, you're probably more similar to Villanova students than Princeton students.
2) if you just missed getting into Princeton, you're more likely to end up at someplace more selective than Villanova but less selective than Princeton, and
3) even if you are a Princeton-type who ended up at Villanova, and are more academic/driven/accomplished than your average classmate, you will have a good number of highly academic/driven/accomplished peers.

Students are usually not picking between Harvard and Podunk State, but between slightly more selective University and slightly less selective University.

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I don’t disagree. But the PP asserted that the Princeton reject accompanied by a handful of other ivy rejects going to second tier school (like Villanova), simply by virtue of their attendance makes a second tier school “top”. And it doesn’t.[/quote]

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