<p>If the elites aren’t admitting on the basis of academic merit, where are all of those academically meritorious students going instead?</p>
<p>I guess what irks me most about Canuckguy’s theories is that even though both my wife and I went to Yale, and we both went to top professional schools, and our kids both went to Yale, nobody has given us the secret handshake for the hidden power elite.</p>