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Academic competition is like competing for sports. You get grades and degrees, like trophies or sports stats. Bragging rights and glory. Why not, if you can? BTW, sports is also a lot more competitive than in the past.
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For 99.99%, they’ll be just as fine with a regular college degree. They’ll get in. Sports highlights my point. The kids are starting to have to commit like they’re going to train for the Olympics to just play highschool sports.

Texas A&M has just as many Fortune 100 CEOs as Harvard. It also has an average GPA 3.5, SAT scores of 1800 and a 71% admission rate.

The branding mantra of fighting to get into Ivy or ‘top tier’ is the big lie, just like the lie of sports.