<p>“But if they were trying to purely get the most out of everyone, many schools would be accepting predominantly full pay students with lower stats.”</p>
<p>No because after all, they are academia. Schools still want to report high stats to USNews and other ranking agencies, still want their students to go to good graduate schools, get Fulbrights and Rhodes, get good jobs after graduation.</p>
<p>Sure, the kids from the “captain of industry” can still work in the family business, but the kid of the successful MD… Not so much.</p>
<p>Also, I take that faculty do prefer to teach interested/intelligent kids over the completely disengaged kids.</p>