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If Harvard admission criteria leave out the best applicants to other colleges, and they go on to create powerful companies like Google in large number, will Har
by throw1471 8y ago
If Harvard admission criteria leave out the best applicants to other colleges, and they go on to create powerful companies like Google in large number, will Harvard’s prestige decrease despite continued support from the elites?
Doing well in tech entrepreneurship needs brilliance more than great personality and political connections (they should be above a level but you don’t need a very high level of them).
Politics is still the surest route to power but billionaires are also powerful and have longer influence. If next generation moguls are educated elsewhere, the colleges with more merit based criteria should emerge as more elite.
- intended 8y agoPeople forget that Harvard may be their first choice, but their safety schools will be Stanford and so on. These candidates who don’t get into Harvard but were contenders are not hurting for overall choice.
- vinceguidry 8y agoPeople that can become successful despite the school they go to are classic social climbers and obviously the school they go to would benefit from having those social climbers go there. But the relative benefit to the organization of one successful alum is miniscule compared to the benefit that the school has on every single matriculant. A university's entire goal is to empower anyone to succeed. That's the whole reason they exist. If Harvard's reputation as a gateway to elite society is lost, society doesn't gain another one elsewhere. It's just lost. People that could succeed without college will still succeed. It's all those people that couldn't have succeeded without college, that went to college and gained the benefit of having an education there, that will lose that opportunity. Imagine a world in which Harvard is only slightly better than Georgia State. That's what's at stake here.