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<p>I know many from both schools, and I can’t tell the difference. I get your point (there’s definitely a difference in the engineering majors), but this wasn’t a very good example. </p>
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<p>I know many students from WashU and Emory (but not Northwestern), and in most cases I can tell a difference between their intelligence and the intelligence of the average student at Princeton. I’ve known these students in an academic setting since before they applied to colleges, so I don’t have some sort of subconscious bias.</p>