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>While well intentioned How long can elite bureaucrats play games of selecting winners and losers before we stop giving them the benefit of the doubt? Barrier
by wallace_f 8y ago
>While well intentioned
How long can elite bureaucrats play games of selecting winners and losers before we stop giving them the benefit of the doubt?
Barriers to entry to competition will always be deleterious to results. Especially when those barriers to entry are based on financial incentives and racism.
And let's be honest, anyone familiar is fully aware that at the very least, you can quite easily coast through Harvard if you don't care about your GPA or major.
The discussion should be about 'what's stopping us from giving everyone open access and opportunity,' not 'we must reject thousands of qualified candidates, let's have a law suit to decide the correct number of Asians.'
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- Spooky23 8y agoI think that the issue that the “elite bureaucrats” are trying to wrestle with is what defines a University. Is it a factory for high GPA? A community? Some other thing? I think the answer is somewhere in the middle, and your disposes bureaucrats have a point. My parents left the big city and moved to the country when I was in middle school. I went to a big public university. I’ve seen a few perspectives of these matters and I’ll tell you straight out that the culture in the melting pot urban environment of my youth was more vital and functional than the mostly white farm town or 90% south/east asian sciences programs that I attended in college. University should challenge your view of the world, and a community of rich suburbanites and tiger-mom kids isn’t where that will happen. We should attack the discrimination of employees based on university pedigree — that’s the nasty thing that enables bad behavior, and the thing turning colleges into the monsters is education/entertainment/branding machines that they have become.