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An actual top school can’t have too many students or else by necessity its best students would have to get a lower quality education by being surrounded by dumb
by SamReidHughes 6y ago
An actual top school can’t have too many students or else by necessity its best students would have to get a lower quality education by being surrounded by dumber students. So the top schools need to be relatively small in order to serve their purpose.
- strikelaserclaw 6y agoThe article mentions that there were many very qualified candidates who are routinely rejected due to artificial scarcity and that selection among such high quality candidates was arbitrary in many cases. So i doubt, you would be surrounded by dumb students even if you made incoming class sizes larger.
- SamReidHughes 6y agoThere is no need to bring up the article to point out an obvious fact. It's well known that top schools have imperfect admissions criteria. If they expand their class sizes, it will still be with imperfect admissions criteria, resulting in admitting dumber kids.