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Yale, Columbia, Community College and a State school here. I've also taught college courses at an extension school of a public university. The population diff
by p0pcult 4y ago
Yale, Columbia, Community College and a State school here. I've also taught college courses at an extension school of a public university.
The population differences are real. They're like normal distributions where the mean of one is perhaps a whole SD higher than the mean of another. That said, if you pick the top 5 students at the State School and the top 5 at the Ivy, the students themselves are roughly equivalent, but the ones from the Ivy had a lot more access to higher quality facilities, funding, opportunity, faculty, and peers.
- cudgy 4y agoSo, should the top state school students be more desirable, since they achieved similar results with less resources?
- p0pcult 4y agoOh,I wasnt suggesting that the end results were similar, merely that the students themselves were: hardworking, very smart, determined,efficient. The results themselves are different precisely because of the greater access afforded to kids at the ivies. The result suggests thay top students anywhere are still top students.