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Are you unimpressed with rich candidates, or is there a taint to getting admitted to an an exclusive university? For some, that admission is a far greater achi
by blueboo 7y ago
Are you unimpressed with rich candidates, or is there a taint to getting admitted to an an exclusive university? For some, that admission is a far greater achievement than acing a CS curriculum at a state school later in life.
It might be worth examining and separating out your biases.
- cosmodisk 7y agoHe's referring to a subcategory of people at Harvard who are full of unreasonable entitlement and under different circumstances wouldn't find their way out of a paper bag. I had a young American colleague,here in London,who was like this.Went to a fairly good school,got a job at a large corp, and eventually came to London to work for his dad's friend.While he did a reasonable job,the rest was absolutely awful: everyone was somewhat less smart than him,only he knew how to do shit, and ultimately he was the smartest guy in the room .Then obviously all the talks about how the US is land of opportunity and anyone could make it big there only if they put in some effort. The reality is that 90% of his "success" is attributed to one person- his dad, who's a pretty expensive lawyer and could bankroll his sons journey all the way from cradle to London.
- linksnapzz 7y agoYou first. Admission to an exclusive university MAY be indicative of some achievement-but that achievement might be "how best to impress the sort of people who work for an Exclusive University's admissions office." I might not feel that those are the best sorts to try and spend one's teenage years working to impress.