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Quite far, as the folks who replied below have demonstrated. College admissions today have almost nothing to do with academics, and once enrolled, the programs

Quite far, as the folks who replied below have demonstrated. College admissions today have almost nothing to do with academics, and once enrolled, the programs themselves are as much about grievance and political nonsense as they are about learning. We started with this idea that everyone should go to college to learn useful knowledge and skills, but ended up with just a huge population going to these expensive institutions just to party and protest. Now that college doesn't teach things of any value, we are in need of new institutions that do what college was meant to do.

WalterGR 4y ago
> Quite far, as the folks who replied below have demonstrated. With a single infographic about Harvard? No. Nothing in your comment rises above the level of a hyperbolic rant about - given your lack of citations and mind-bogglingly loose definition of "demonstrate" - something you don't seem to actually believe.
- cato_the_elder 4y ago
  Here's another chart which I think is evidence in the direction of other major universities [1] engaging in a similar extent of affirmative action: https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/original-size/images/2015/09/articles/body/20151003_FBC019.png https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imageca... The comparison with Caltech (besides the population of college-aged Asisan-Amercians) is because in California, due to Proposition 209 [2], public universities are legally prohibited from using direct racial criteria in admissions. [1]: Brown, Yale, Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, Princeton, and Columbia [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_209 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_20...