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Your problem appears to be holistic admission in general. And to that, ok, I do agree and it's not consistent or deterministic by design. But the idea that peop
by akhilcacharya 8y ago
Your problem appears to be holistic admission in general. And to that, ok, I do agree and it's not consistent or deterministic by design. But the idea that people should get so mad about this that they sue and raise a fit is silly.
There are two competing implicit narratives here -
1) The school you go to doesn't matter and you should do the best where-ever you are (I personally heard this quite a bit).
2) You will be irreparably harmed for life because you didn't get into School N instead of School N - 1.
Which is it?
- solveit 8y agoThe problem isn't holistic admission, the problem is that Harvard is using the cover of holistic admission to black-box the admissions process so nobody can prove what shenanigans are actually going on. That only works until somebody does a simple regression, but most people don't understand regressions or any sort of statistics at all.
- sincerely 8y agoWait, where are those narratives coming from the same person?
- akhilcacharya 8y agoSometimes, yes! But I've heard both repeatedly! It is absolutely maddening.
- johntb86 8y agoI doubt that Harvard would be excited about arguing in favor of 1).
- yhoneycomb 8y agoIt's infuriating because it's racist, not because it's any one school in particular