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Is a Harvard education really that spectacular anymore or is it more a social indicator? Feels like it’s prominence has wained over the past couple decades.
by halfmatthalfcat 5y ago
Is a Harvard education really that spectacular anymore or is it more a social indicator? Feels like it’s prominence has wained over the past couple decades.
- DarylZero 5y agoThe education is probably nothing special but it's more about the social network.
- Jtype 5y agoIf you cut down on legacies then you lose the advantage of the social network. Kind of a catch-22.
- nitrogen 5y agoNot entirely. If the selection process ensures that the brightest (and luckiest) minds are all together, they will still be able to benefit one another over time, even if they didn't gain access to capital or connections beyond their cohort.
- brian-armstrong 5y agoAmazing to think that one movie could change a college's appearance so profoundly!
- DarylZero 5y agoWhat movie?
- skyde 5y agoif Harvard is not spectacular then what is? I mean what is replacing it’s role?
- hcurtiss 5y agoMIT
- pirate787 5y agoPrinceton
- sova 5y agoIIT
- selimthegrim 5y agoWhen IIT research is knocking people's socks off, let me know.
- sova 5y agoI was thinking more about power shifts, not inequitable comparisons :D
- xapata 5y agoIt is not clear that formal education in general is a causal factor for lifetime income, or merely a symptom of the same underlying cause(s).
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Is a Harvard education really that spectacular anymore or is it more a social indicator? Harvard has always been a social indicator that is also decent educationally in some areas (but not, AFAIK, superlative in any undergraduate field.)