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It’s hard to find global numbers by these categories, but I think world class universities should look at global numbers rather than usa only numbers... if they
by naveen99 6y ago
It’s hard to find global numbers by these categories, but I think world class universities should look at global numbers rather than usa only numbers... if they are going to look at demographics at all. if you look at global numbers, caltech demographics may be pretty close to being proportional representation.
- rbecker 6y agoThe US makes up about 4% of the global population. So it would only makes sense to expect Yale to be close to global representation if only about 4% of its students were from the US. And I'm sure there are many world-class universities in India, China, Japan, Egypt, Turkey... Are they pretty close to proportional if you look at global numbers? For example, Kyoto University or Peking University, both world class institutions, does their student body reflect the global population, or the Japanese/Chinese population?
- naveen99 6y agoWhat I mean is us is a melting pot / magnet for upward social mobility. So I expect in the long run, the annual cohort of bright children would be proportionally represented here in the top Private universities / companies. Or... I expect the demographics of hn users to be more similar to global demographics rather than us demographics.