That heading is sarcasm as even with all the quotas, there is no lack of brilliance at Princeton or any other selective college.
Don’t forget the weight of other institutional needs. Geo diversity, eg, can be killer. Harvard, eg, can’t to take every single great applicant from, say, the Bay Area/Palo Alto and ignore the rest of CA, OR, WA. The total freshman count fom that “Pacific” area seems to be a little over 300. At Princeton, after NJ, the largest group comes from CA. But there are 46 other states represented.
Nor can they take all STEM kids and not fill other majors.
@Nocreativity1 “I’m expecting brilliance. Genius. And then what I discover is, wow, there’s a lot of arbitrariness to this stuff, you know?” Obama told “CBS This Morning”
Not quotas. A search for the right kids baed on more than stats. Until one sees actual apps, Ithink it’s hard to understand that not every top performer in hs can put together a good app. And not all brilliance is manifested in stats, stats, stats.
I agree about different type of smarts but we do need more transparency and current system is far from being flawless.
Can’t use such old examples as the Trumps. Ivanka, as one example, applied to colleges 20 years ago, Back then, H had about half the apps it has now. (I’m not going looking for the old stats re: Penn and Princeton.)
And she spent her first two years at Georgetown, not Wharton.
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