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A lottery will never happen as you laid out here. Not because it’s not a good idea but because it tarnishes the pedigree of the school. Being selected to attend
by ordinaryradical 8y ago
A lottery will never happen as you laid out here. Not because it’s not a good idea but because it tarnishes the pedigree of the school. Being selected to attend Harvard and winning the lottery among those qualified to attend are so vastly different in the mind’s eye that there’s no way they’d take up this system.
Fundamentally, it risks their brand.
I think the real answer may still be the open sourcing of curriculum and teaching through online courses. Completing an education at Harvard should be inherently valuable whether or not you were selected for it. This is meritocratic but also realistic, I think.
- zamfi 8y agoThe (magnet) elementary school I attended used a lottery to select among the top X% of applicants. It did not "tarnish the pedigree of the school" or anything like that. There is already a lottery to select which students among the thousands who apply will be offered admission. It's just not uniformly random.
- TheLoneAdmin 8y agoYou can't compare the reputation of a local elementary school versus Harvard.
- notyourday 8y agoThere are pre-schools in NYC that have tuition comparable to the Harvard ones.
- notfromhere 8y agoThe only thing it'll tarnish is Harvard's reputation for accepting the children of the elite.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoThe education doesn't matter as much as the pedigree. At some point we're defeating the point of the elite schools.