Harvard ‘We will continue to have a discriminatory and racist admissions policy’
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The conventional wisdom that attending a top-50 school makes you smart is not uttered by bright people. What's changed is that you can't even trust the smart, promising graduates if they don't explicitly denounce DEI when prodded.
It's not even a thing in academic circles. Harvard is the most respected, not the best. I had several ivy League profs in my university.
They all admitted my rink a dink school was better because we wanted to learn and not use our status to get good grades. A history prof pointed out the big names were more for building up a network, not the education or abilities made. This is why the history department started to work on creating networks for job placement outside of academia.
This seems like a foundational pillar of modern liberal orthodoxy.
That is very true. We should listen to the most respected because we put them there. But which We are we talking about?
Seems to me a lot of people recognize that undergraduate degrees in particular don't count for that much. Business and other professional degrees still seem to be valued. On the bachelors degrees again, if you want to pursue certain career tracks, going to an exclusive school is the main way people get their foot in the door. Depending on what you want to do, it might be a waste of money. Particularly, if you intend to get another degree. The name on that one might matter more. And you gotta pay for it all.
The true value in attending colleges like Harvard has nothing to do with education and everything to do with the connections you can make while there.
People look at Harvard graduates being successful and making bank and assume it's due to intelligence, when they're just seeing blatant nepotism in action.
Most lucrative corporations will swallow up any ivy league grad they can get their hands on, which means you should be cautious of any who is job-seeking on the open market. As a competitor, figure out how you can spot talent overlooked by other employers.
Japanese equivalent: scroll down to 'Exploiting Flaws In Salarymandom'
Ivy League is a way to keep the power within the tribe, if you catch my drift.