Very bright students will benefit from more advanced material at the top end of the curriculum.
Several professors openly urge students to go for PhD (and subsequently research) and look down upon bright students opting for industry.
Many kids, especially bright students, want to go to a big-name school.
They have concentrated on inculcating aspiration in bright students from schools with little or no history of sending pupils to Oxford or Cambridge.
Today, with more and more bright students going abroad to university, many Greek parents reckon that the country's state education is worse than ever before.
Yet the ostentatiously ludicrous Mr West has undoubtedly helped to attract bright students to Harvard in the same way that the rather more serious Arthur Schlesinger and John Kenneth Galbraith once did.
Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of Sutton Trust, which promotes social mobility through education, said the research revealed "a group of bright students who need extra support and encouragement to make the right decisions".
Like bright students, our success stories have a lot in common. 40 of them, about 82%, are in just three industries: technology and telecommunications (21 companies), financial services (13 companies) and health care and pharmaceuticals (6 companies).
He suggested that bright students should be pushed as they would be if they attended independent or grammar schools, adding that too many were left to coast in mixed ability classes or entered too early for exams.
The thinking is that this will make it less likely that bright students from bad schools will suffer because they underestimate their abilities and therefore fail to think about applying to top universities until it is too late.
However, hanging around these incredibly bright young students for a couple of days raised my level of confidence about the future.
I've spent the last 20 years teaching journalism and writing classes at a selective public university, and the majority of my (bright) students put me in mind of Jack Nicholson's line to Tom Cruise in "A Few Good Men": "You can't handle the truth!"
Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity -- until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.
With reduced demand for university positions from bright but poor students, I would expect an influx of upper-class under-achievers to the duller Oxbridge colleges.
He said research in the USA had shown sending information packs to bright low-income students boosted the proportion of them going to top colleges.
Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of education charity Sutton Trust, welcomed the guide, adding that he hoped it would help "bright non-privileged students in particular, who all too often do not receive the support and guidance they need at this key juncture in their lives".
Yet after these bright, hard-working students receive their degree, we make it almost impossible for them to stay.
All the same, the Welsh government will be acutely aware that the whole point of digging deep into the public purse to offer financial support to students was to prevent bright young Welsh pupils being put off going to college.
"Christina was a bright and popular student much loved by staff and students alike, " he said.
The students I talked in Connecticut today were bright, spirited, and eager to go on to college to get their degrees.
"Popular, active, bright and with a very wide circle of friends, Lily will be desperately missed by students and staff and all those who knew her, " he added.
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Christopher Ray, of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, which represents independent school leaders, told BBC News the new system could potentially harm "students who only when they get their AS-level results in Year 12 realise how bright they are, who are perhaps in an underperforming school or college and who suddenly have the self-confidence to aim for the stars".
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