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This rings true. Most of my friends now that I'm older are basically people I met at Uni or people I met through them. Kind of a weird thing to optimize for tho

This rings true. Most of my friends now that I'm older are basically people I met at Uni or people I met through them. Kind of a weird thing to optimize for though.

quickthrowman 6y ago
> Kind of a weird thing to optimize for though. The part they left out is important: the endowment. They optimize for the endowment, and contributions towards it. “Elites” have the most money to contribute. It’s always about the money, of which Harvard has $40.9B. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_endowment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_endowment
- lupire 6y ago
  Donors are about a quarter of the class, not all of it.
  - MolHill 6y ago
    If you aren't paying, you're the product, per https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/the-uncharity-of-college-the-big-business-nobody-understands https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/the-uncharity-of-colle...
AnimalMuppet 6y ago
I went to Random Public University. The contacts I made there are people who went to Random Public University. The people who go to Harvard make contacts who went to Harvard. If the people who went to Harvard are, on average, more valuable to have as contacts then the people I went to school with, then it makes perfect sense to optimize for that. The education you can get anywhere, but the valuable contacts you can't.