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> among my social circle You could have ended your reasoning as soon as you wrote this. It is obvious what I said is an exaggeration, but it carries out some t
by thiago_fm 8y ago
> among my social circle
You could have ended your reasoning as soon as you wrote this. It is obvious what I said is an exaggeration, but it carries out some truth. Go ask around the people in America itself, outside a city like SF/NY, what do they think about it. I'm not even American. That's not what I see/read about. A country with some big time inequality, with little to none social mobility, possibly the worst social mobility since the country was founded. But no, everybody can get into Ivy League.
- afarrell 8y ago> But no, everybody can get into Ivy League. I didn't say that. I said that the universities offer scholarships which cover their assessment of financial need. They still have limited slots and are very selective. > It is obvious what I said is an exaggeration, but it carries out some truth I genuinely didn't know that you were exaggerating. I thought that was your perception. We live in a world where lots of things are true in degrees. There is some amount of snobbery at elite US universities and there s some quantity of social mobility. But exaggeration makes it really hard to talk about how much or how little and that quantity matters to understanding the problem.