the truth about ivies and elite schools

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<p>The press choose to sensationalize the study. All the study is saying is that weaker students protect their GPA by switching from hard subjects to easy subjects. If you were to check the GRE scores of various majors, you will see that engineering, hard sciences, and economics do indeed score high:</p>

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<p>Hunt’s son scored 2390 on the SAT. He clearly belongs in Yale. No one is claiming otherwise.</p>

<p>Btw, the study was peer reviewed and published by The Journal of Labor Economics in October, 2012. What I find interesting is that the protestors are themselves evidence of the study’s validity.</p>

<p>As I always say, if you want to check for SES, look at the school; if you want to check for ability, look at the major.</p>