@ChrisExpTheNews you don't think their studies would suffer?

@NoLongerBennett Without three years of Spanish in high school, how will they be able to ask "donde esta la bibliotheca?"

@ChrisExpTheNews this does not look difficult? i took like two semesters of classical greek

@eris_nerung It's not meant to be. It's basically "do you have a solid intro to Greek background?" screening question. Although in the modern day there's a debate about how much to focus on the accent marks

@ChrisExpTheNews People used to be so much smarter because the top applicants in the world were expected to know something about a subject they were explicitly taught!

@ChrisExpTheNews Ivies weren’t as competitive as they used to be, so not convinced this is top 5%. Then again, maybe this *is* top 5%, and now Yale admits the top 0.005%

@ChrisExpTheNews probably more than the top 5%, this is some basic declension exercises

@ChrisExpTheNews Exactly. If it was in Spanish people would pass with zero issues. The math section later in the thread is even funnier. All the ninth graders in the advanced math program at my high school could ace it with zero issues

@ChrisExpTheNews Even more likely if only the top 5% made it into high school in the first place. Remember that brutal Victorian high school entrance exam that made the rounds on the internet some years ago?