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<p>And the gods are equally crazy if they think that most kids going to “research universities” are attending the likes of Stanford and Princeton.</p>
<p>Look, there are something like 3,000 four-year colleges and universities in this country. A lot of them are pretty crappy, and not just small ones. Quite a few do a pretty good job with limited resources. And a small handful are outstanding. But excellence doesn’t correlate with size.</p>