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I will contend that sometimes it may be more difficult to obtain a 4.0 over a 3.9 at a less selective school, but this makes no difference when speaking of the intellectual vitality of the student. I may be an idealist, but I believe that admissions counsels take this into consideration, and STILL equate the applicants on par with one another.
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<p>You may cavil until you are green in the face, but numerous adcoms from schools in the Top 20 have given me information that runs contrary to your claim. </p>
<p>That adcoms prefer students from higher ranked institutions makes no statement regarding the intellectual capacity of students from lower ranked ones, and I do not think adcoms purport to make that claim.</p>
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Therefore, the question remains
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<p>You should omit 'therefore', for your conclusion does not follow.</p>
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Should someone transferring from a CC and State universities be afraid that his competition come from columbia, brown, penn, williams, etc, etc?
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<p>Yes.</p>
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I truly do think that those chosen to be on the admissions counsel are above the 'prestige' factor, as much as they are above the 'if they admitted him we should too'.
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<p>You have been misled.</p>
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again, I may be an idealist, but I hold this belief
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<p>You stand for a great deal of disabuse.</p>
<p>Your beliefs are also fallacious; you have no evidence that students from higher ranked institutions are preferred in transfer admissions, and you use that dearth of evidence as something that not only supports the opposite claim, but also as corroboration for the claim being true by necessity.</p>
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