<p>What is the purpose of this survey, and why does anyone care enough about the results to dissect them? Is it any surprise that high schools whose students are the academic elite or the spawn of the rich and powerful send those students to colleges that seek the academic elite and the spawn of the rich and powerful? I’d be interested to learn about an inner city school that consistently sends a few kids to top colleges, or any institution that performs some sort of alchemy on its students, but this data tells me nothing of note. It’s not as if these schools have discovered some special technique for nurturing young minds. They just house a variety of superstars for four years.</p>