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Ivy League schools are not outliers though. Pick your random private college with an 80% acceptance rate, and it probably costs 70k+ a year

• A_D_E_P_T 4y ago
  Those places have even less to offer, to such an extent that a fresh diploma from such a school is damn close to a negative signal for intelligence and competence. (If not already past that threshold!)
  • vkou 4y ago
    There isn't enough room in the Ivy league schools for all the competent people in this country to have an Ivy degree, even if you kicked out all the 'legacy' admits. If anyone's treating attending a non-Ivy school as a negative signal for competence, I can only treat that as a negative signal for their competence.
    • karmanyaahm 4y ago
      Which is also exactly what the colleges are saying themselves (on the surface). For example, MIT's rejection letter: > Please understand that this is in no way a judgment of you as a student or as a person, since our decision has more to do with the applicant pool than anything else—many of our applicants are not offered admission simply because we don’t have enough space in our entering class.