| It seems to me that if you took the type of students who are accepted to the above mentioned schools and put them anywhere, you would find that there is an exceptionally high rate of achievement from them. especially if your are dropping out all of the low performers from your statistical pool, which these schools do. The question becomes--which is more responsible for the high rankings--this very, very select group of high-performing students who just happen to go to School X, or is School X responsible for the success of their attendees? I would think that if you go to any number of colleges throughout the country and look at just the very highest performers and drop out the data from all of the other students, you would come up with equally impressive stats. |