"But they have to have magical powers just to get in to the school. Muggles aren't admitted. And therein lies the parallel to Karate Kid."
So students who get admitted to MIT or Cal Poly-Tech are just like the Karate Kid because they went to schools where you actually have to be smart?
"So students who get admitted to MIT or Cal Poly-Tech are just like the Karate Kid because they went to schools where you actually have to be smart?"
I'd appreciate it if you'd make an effort to avoid leaps of illogic.
A parallel with the KK would be a D student with a 98 IQ who went to a special SAT prep school for six months and came out with a 165 IQ and a score of 1590.
A kid who gets admitted to those schools is not only smart, but has been demonstrating it for some years. In addition, unlike sudden Karate skills or magical powers, intelligence is real.