>>Some of them (like Amherst, where my older son went) are even working pretty hard to find kids who wouldn't ordinarily apply to such schools and then given them the supports they need to succeed.
Right. So the American Dream is kept alive, at least in part, because not everybody thinks they are Smaug guarding their hoard. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
