Originally Posted by Dude
Originally Posted by arlen1
No, they do suffer - they are deprived of an academic opportunity, and they do often suffer from under-challenge (there is a long, well-known, list: lack of organisational skills, perfectionism, inattention, etc. - there are posts here about this all the time.)

To be fair, we're talking about very different populations and strategies here. Sorting students into quartiles is very different from specific services for the right tail of the distribution curve. The top 1% would still be ill-served in a class for the top 25%.


They are even worse served in the class of top 100%. (I'd take top 25% now.)

(I do agree that ideally the course for the top 1% should be different from the course for the top 25%.)