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Or they can just scale up with population growth. Funding is hardly scarce at their level. We have more billionaires right now than ever. A few building names and libraries will easily pay for the next decade.

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I totally agree if the solution is just to say "we automatically will admit anyone who hits our bar, and we'll grow the university as needed to accommodate anyone that hits that bar."

At some point, though, it seems like you might get into pure physical constraints at a place like Yale.

Scaling up would still exclude nearly everyone, including the namesake of my username and the most powerful man in the world.

And you just proved my point, look at the distribution of Congress, the SCOTUS, the majority of elite government executive bureaucracy and tell me that they don't overwhelmingly favor certain institutions. Just ask your namesake's old boss.

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