[SeekAndFind]

You don't have to be a genius to be at Yale or Harvard or Penn etc.

But you do need to have good grades. In fact, your SAT scores have to be AT LEAST above the 95% percentile to get into these schools. That at least, tells us something about the IQ of those getting into these colleges.

Of course Intelligence is often equated with Wisdom and THAT is the problem. We have too many foolish intellectuals out there.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Your SAT scores do not need to be above the 95th percentile to get into these universities. If you are Caucasian and come from a middle class family with no family legacy connection and no ‘unique’ attributes (e.g. llived in some other country for a significant period of time) you will have to have those scores. If, however, you meet other criteria for what these schools are looking for you don't have to have those scores.

In fact, graduates from the Ivies often do not perform as well on standardized tests as do students from lesser name universities. Somehow I don't believe Al Gore's SAT scores were above the 95th percentile.

Incidentally, if you heard any of Obama’s recent graduation address you heard him say ...”rather than the means of e-pants-ipation” (he was supposed to say ‘emancipation’). So much for assuming that an education at an Ivy makes you one of the smartest people in the world.