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Is 180 IQ the baseline of admission into schools like Harvard or MIT? No, its not. Apples and oranges.

Most biased comments about college admission always get hung up on one of two irrelevant qualities:

* illusory perceptions that childhood genius far outside even their selective populations somehow equate to real world adult performance

* a selection bias that schools must supremely optimize some precise quality during admissions that they don't nurture or measure

Instead of you just look at the data, remove all the emotional nonsense, and assign everybody a number with a set of performance metrics most of what people care about are things the schools care nothing about and ultimately don't matter.



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