<p>Yes, I read the thread, and I agree with your statement. I was referring to the attached article. Under the section ‘Toward a Pure Meritocracy’ which reads:</p>
<p>‘What this means is that at Caltech, there are no dumb jocks, dumb legacies, or dumb affirmative action students. It is clear from its published statistics that the non-academic criteria that preoccupy admissions committees at all other elite universities count for little at this beacon of pure meritocracy’ <end quote=“”>…</end></p>
<p>…as if ‘dumb jocks, dumb legacies, and dumb affirmative action students’ are accepted at Harvard, and comprises 50% of the student population.</p>