<p>The fact that you stereotype those who attempt to get those scores as having unhealthy, unbalanced lives shows your ignorance of students of this calibre. How you can even attempt to assume that the pursuit of intelligent and independent learning eclipses a natural lifestyle is beyond me; perhaps you haven’t had the experience yourself, so you immediately attack the actions of those people who can and do. </p>
<p>[EDIT]: Although I do now notice that you are a senior blogger at MIT. Which I should have noticed earlier, since I read those blogs. After such, you can’t say that because a person is spending more time studying for the SAT or whatnot, they drop all of those things that they love. I cannot agree that it is necessarily a problem at all. I think you might find that there are quite a number of people of either type at MIT, and you should as a mature member of the university at the least accept those people who were like that, and accept those students who ARE like that.</p>