Originally Posted by JonLaw
Originally Posted by Dude
If the Ivies were really looking for resiliency and ambition, they wouldn't be recruiting at beauty pageants, they'd be recruiting in the inner cities.

That's actually incorrect.

Escaping your roots comes with the cost of significant physical stress that causes physical damage to body systems, so you are less healthy than a standard-issue UMC-er.

I think someone used to the stress of living each day in fear of physical danger and failure to meet basic needs would probably see a stress reduction and health improvement in university life, wouldn't you?

What all these extracurricular activities really highlight is a student's resilience to an Ivy's price tag, and that's what they're really recruiting for.