[throwaway_374]

> except for affirmative action students who get into top schools with much worse scores and GPA.

This dismissive "quota tokens" attitude really irks me. It's one thing getting in, it's a total different ballgame surviving and coming out the other end with a decent GPA. I've seen people of all socioeconomic backgrounds fail and some from remarkable poor backgrounds do exceptionally well.

[aianus]

Getting in is harder than surviving or even excelling. The median grade at Harvard is an A and the graduation rate is 97.5%.