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<p>Not BrunoAlumnus (although I am a Brown alumnus). The fact is that you could interchange the kids at ANY of the top 20 schools and no one would know the difference. The only people who truly believe HYPSM kids are demonstrably stronger than Brown, Duke, Cornell, CalTech, Chicago, Columbia, Penn, etc are snobby high schoolers. You could even take the accepted classes of the top 20 institutions, toss them aside, fill them all again, toss those aside, fill them all a 3rd time and still probably not see a meaningful difference in student caliber. In fact Yale admissions used to say this about their own applicants on the tours (the idea about tossing out the class and redoing it without seeing any drop in metrics). Under 10% of the kids who apply to these schools get in but easily ~30% who apply are just as good as that group and could have gotten in if their application had been read on a different day or by a different person or if the reader’s kid made a different comment at breakfast, or if Lorenz’s butterfly flapped its wings 4 times instead of 5 the week before.</p>