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People who understand that higher education quality is basically at parity and what matters is your peers/connections fostered in college + the doors that open
by fullshark 3y ago
People who understand that higher education quality is basically at parity and what matters is your peers/connections fostered in college + the doors that open for you based on what school you went to. The perceived elite schools give you a leg up in life, this is true for every country on the planet, and a lot of parents/kids work extremely hard to try and get into them for a reason.
- sublinear 3y agoThis is exactly it and why admitting more people to ivy league schools will entirely dilute what value was there.
- trgn 3y ago> this is true for every country on the planet No, it's a cultural thing. There's really two points in that article: - (1) people are overestimating the actual lifetime effects of attending an elite school. - (2) people are obsessing over attending (or their children attending) elite schools. That second one is a spiritual failure, not just one of ignorance. That upper middle-class obsession with the brand of education may not be uniquely american (i read similar horror stories about china for example), but it is certainly very pronounced here. It is in no way similar to how kids and families choose universities in say western europe imho.
- adamsmith143 3y ago>No, it's a cultural thing. IIT's, Peking/Tsinghua, SNU(Korea), University of Tokyo, Oxbridge, etc. etc. Cultural thing that happens across the entire world?
- trgn 3y agoi guess we're just going around in circles. It happens nowhere near US levels in e.g. western europe.
- TMWNN 3y agoOxbridge and the Grande Écoles disagree with you.
- adamsmith143 3y agoIt happens much more in Asia, a place with oh idk several billion people. So hardly a US phenomena.