<p>dstark -- looking at the SAT stats, I think that adcoms at the top 50 unis and LACs talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk.</p>
<p>I'd love to know how Michelle Wie ranks on the intellectual curiosity scale at Stanford for the Class of 2011 or how Rudy Giuliani's golfer son demonstrated his to get into Duke. And let's not even talk about the kids at those or similar schools that have families that have (or can) pump up the endowment or drop a new building onto the campus.</p>
<p>Hey, it's reality. We just as well learn it at 17 or 18 than wait until we're really old. You know, like 30!!</p>