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"We don’t need to sort and classify 18-year olds. It’s absurd. Stop trying to fix it and get rid of it."

Would the OP make the same argument about athletics? That 18-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo and 18-year-old Frankie Fatass, instead of being sorted and classified, should be put into the same soccer program?

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Which soccer program are you referring to? At age 18, Cristiano Ronaldo was not attending a nonprofit school, he was a member of a for-profit professional team.

Yes, differences between 18 year olds are extreme when you look at the best vs. the average

You didn't answer my question.

The "soccer program" is the professional soccer team that Cristiano Ronaldo was on. Should Freddy Fatass have been playing for them too?

No. This is why I said "Cristiano Ronaldo was not attending a nonprofit school, he was a member of a for-profit professional team."

Harvard is a nonprofit school, financially supported by the government in various ways. The standards are different. If Harvard wants to act like a business, then it needs to give up its nonprofit status, forsake government support, and pay taxes as a business.

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