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Your assertion about increasing the top x% is only true in absolute terms. If we're talking top x% of college admissions then that changes the picture. Ther
by willnonya 4y ago
Your assertion about increasing the top x% is only true in absolute terms. If we're talking top x% of college admissions then that changes the picture. There's a big difference between that top x% being 1,000 and that same percentage being 50,000 students.
- darawk 4y agoYa, it's certainly possible that we have too few elite universities given the population, or that there's a mismatch there for the absolute numbers. I don't mean to suggest the current arrangement is exactly right. I just meant to argue against the naive view that we can expand eliteness by letting more people into Ivys, or make more Ivy schools.