<p>Don’t like my statistics? Maybe you should present some of your own, rather than flatly demanding everyone take your unsupported assertions at face value.</p>
<p>I made no claims about the overall academic quality of the student body at a community college. I would freely admit that, in general, the student body at a community college is of lesser capability than that of Cornell. That’s not what’s at issue here - we’re talking about individual students.</p>
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<p>Well, they aren’t. Someone at a community college could be just as capable as someone at an Ivy. You do realize there are a trillion and one reasons why any given person may choose or not choose any given college, right? We are far from a perfect academic meritocracy. (Legacies? Athletics? Big donors? Limited space? First-gen with no family support? etc.)</p>
<p>On average, certainly, one can claim that Ivy students are more qualified than community college students. But on an individual basis, as you so presciently admitted, there are outliers.</p>