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Harvard isn't trying to pump out just academics or engineers, lawyers and doctors. They want to pump out prominent businessmen, politicians, activists, fields l

Harvard isn't trying to pump out just academics or engineers, lawyers and doctors. They want to pump out prominent businessmen, politicians, activists, fields like these have a looser correlation to raw technical ability and can't really be measured by sat scores or GPA

m0zg 6y ago
> fields like these have a looser correlation to raw technical ability Citation needed.
- strikelaserclaw 6y ago
  You think George Bush or Donald Trump got a 1600 on the SAT, valedictorian of their high school, and/or play the violin at a high level?
  - m0zg 6y ago
    No, but they aren't really the examples of excellence you're looking for. :-)
  - dunce2020 6y ago
    They're not fucking nerds, no.
ffggvv 6y ago
but skin color can measure it?
- strikelaserclaw 6y ago
  in some cases a most definite YES. America is not some post racial utopia, we are far away from Asians having prominence in politics or social life.
  - m0zg 6y ago
    This could be because politics sucks and pay is low, so successful lawyer/doctor Asians do not want to participate in it.
  - mas3god 6y ago
    One of the leading candidates in the DNC was Asian, this is about forced diversity from woke-ism