At undergraduate level, students beg for Ivy League schools;
At postgraduate level, Ivy League schools beg for students.
I used to be shocked by the calibre of students rejected by Ivy League undergraduate programmes, and equally shocked by the calibre of students accepted by Ivy League graduate schools.
Nowadays I'm numb.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
And people who never went to top schools think going to top schools transforms average people into whizkids. Which it does not.
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That's absolutely true. Refer to the following article by Dr. Lee Wei Ling.
Schooled for success, on my own terms
Tue, Nov 17, 2009
The Straits Times
By Lee Wei Ling
Did the cream automatically float to the schools that repeatedly churned out good examination results or did these schools transform academically mediocre students into academic stars? I rather believe it was the former.