> I'll bet that most students with good grades who are applying to elite colleges have higher than average IQs. That wasn't your claim: > You're assuming that

> I'll bet that most students with good grades who are applying to elite colleges have higher than average IQs. That wasn't your claim: > You're assuming that people who are admitted to Ivy League schools a) have higher IQs than average and b) have parents with higher IQs than average. >What differentiates the ones who get accepted from the ones who don't? At Caltech and MIT? Possibly the most meritocratic schools in the US? Idk, .001 on your GPA or a single point on your SAT and AP scores? Or the fact that you didn't win an IOM medal or Intel Talent Search?