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That dream get crushed when universities start increasingly accepting students through connections and children of graduates. Getting major urban schools is mu
by fiblye 7y ago
That dream get crushed when universities start increasingly accepting students through connections and children of graduates.
Getting major urban schools is much harder as a rural kid with a 4.0 GPA than a kid from nearby with the same GPA and parents who attended and donated to the school a few times.
I think Americans are more pissed off because there's been more to make people aware of the long term and growing unfairness.
- robotnikman 7y agoPeople do seem to forget how much a privileged upbringing can be a factor in terms of what university someone goes to and their job prospects once they have graduated. I've met software engineers who graduated from prestigious universities who were no more smarter than someone who learned programming and graduated from their local community college. Its more of who you know than what you know unfortunately.