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> If you were president of one of the top universities, the way you would instantly get all the students, all the alumni, and all the faculty to hunt you down a
by buboard 8y ago
> If you were president of one of the top universities, the way you would instantly get all the students, all the alumni, and all the faculty to hunt you down and fire you would be to propose doubling the enrollment over the next 20 years. But why can't Harvard double or triple its enrollment? It’s like a Studio 54 nightclub where you have a velvet rope with a very small number of people on the inside and very, very large line of people on the outside.
- speedplane 8y agoThe difference is that Harvard's goal is to create the next generation of leaders, not to increase the appearance of scarcity and exclusiveness for profit, as a nightclub seeks to do.
- sokoloff 8y agoIt seems that Harvard does have a strong vested interest in maintaining the (appearance of) exclusiveness. Even setting aside the concern of “where would they live?”, the average Harvard grad probably doesn’t want to see Harvard undergrad triple in class size.