<p>^Also, just an interesting tidbit I’d like to add is that while my dad was finishing his Ph.D, a highly reputed business school asked him to help select the following year’s class. When he analyzed the students by simply academic accomplishments and abilities, the entire class came out to be Indian and Chinese. Obviously, this would put several other ethnic groups at a great disadvantage and would probably have some political ramifications, thus, it isn’t in an institution’s best interest to necessarily pick the best students (academically speaking).</p>