| People turn down these top 12 all the time because they are not willing to pay any price. So the meritocracy hasn't been exclusively concentrated here. It is spread around at dozens of good schools.
I think the "bear any burden pay any price" designation is a completely personal one. Many feel the chasm isn't quite so wide and merit money just makes their decision even more sensible. Also worth noting is that you can go pretty far down in the rankings and still find many schools that have 700+ scores that are much more concentrated than in the general population. And that's where the scholarships are. Maybe it's 30 times more. Or ten times more. |