<p>Lakers,
I’m getting a headache trying to figure out how the “best and brightest” goes to more than one school. </p>
<p>All kids are different and will thrive in different environments. I venture to say this includes that one student who we all agree is the “best and brightest.” I do have a very troubling thought though–that the “best and brightest” could fall into the junkheap of also-rans at a state school some year and HYP would each have to compete for the “better and brighter.” But I guess the spin-artists could easily say that, although the kid who chose State U had by far the strongest test scores, grades, published research, DNA blueprint, etc., the fact that he or she chose State U proves that he or she lacks something else, something less quantifiable (judgment?) and was not the “best and brightest” after all.</p>