| DadII, to answer your question "who gets to decide the make up of the student body" -- Harvard, Yale, Princeton get to decide the make up of their repsective student bodies. These are private institutions created by a specific group of people in general FOR a specific group of people. (Ever wonder why certain schools -- Exeter or Choate for example -- send so many kids to HYP?) It's not supposed to be fair, never was and never will be. If you want a fair, strict meritocracy you need to look elsewhere besides the Ivy League.
PS. I know two kids who just got into Harvard . While good students, they were not elite students. They got in because they had the right last names. They and their families are not surprised Harvard accepted these kids - it was the expected result, as it had been for these kids' parents and in one case, grand parents. |