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[Pea]

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It’s unclear to me why Harvard, et al. would be “worried” about another school rising to their universal caliber of scholarship.

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<p>I agree, I don’t think Harvard worries about it. Harvard is a trailblazer, most recently the financial aid initiative for the middle class. They are at the forefront of making a Harvard education available to anyone regardless of ability to pay. Likewise, Penn is great in the areas where it is unique. Wharton is second to none.</p>

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Why do you think Harvard’s kept track of which schools take more than TEN of its accepts since the 1950s?

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<p>Harvard’s institutional research department keep track of a lot of things, you don’t know what they do with the information.</p>

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Why did Princeton hack into Yale applicant’s accounts in the early 2000s?

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<p>I hope they caught hell for this. This is totally unacceptable.</p>

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Penn will rise into the pantheon. Penn is in the perfect circumstance to achieve this (as is Chicago, actually - and by this I mean an under-appreciated, high caliber private research university).

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<p>I agree.</p>