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Old 08-18-2009, 09:42 PM
littleowl33 littleowl33 is offline
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Originally Posted by UGAalum94 View Post
I'm not interested in a big discussion of regional differences either, but come on, if you look at the percentiles on admissions tests, the data points are way, way out there for the super competitive schools. Think about where the plotting the average score on bell curve. There's no way to objectively argue that Ivy Admissions are normal.

If more than 90% of the girls who don't drop out of rush get bids at Bama, it's just not comparable.
But the reason the Ivies are the Ivies is because they don't take normal students... they take the top students from all across the country. I don't find anything wrong with that - that's the way they work, and that's why they have big name recognition. A high percentage of the girls at Bama won't get into the chapters that get big name recognition, and that's why those groups DO get big name recognition and why membership becomes a status symbol. I would say that scenario is pretty comparable.

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