I have two children at one of these schools, and we are not remotely wealthy. Just like they could fill the class with perfect SAT students, they could probabl

I have two children at one of these schools, and we are not remotely wealthy. Just like they could fill the class with perfect SAT students, they could probably fill it entirely with children of the super-rich, but in both cases, the resulting group would be somehow dull or socially unhealthy in some way. So, the admissions people are smart; they accept some of the rest of us for diversity, sanity, and spark.