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It's funny, the Ivies are actually quite up front that they're goal is to pick "future leaders" of the country, not the most academically gifted students (thoug
by Hermitian909 3y ago
It's funny, the Ivies are actually quite up front that they're goal is to pick "future leaders" of the country, not the most academically gifted students (though this is an important sub-group). The fact that there's a quota of students who are chosen for purely academic talents is particularly telling.
If you have enough drive to get good grades and your parents are worth many millions of dollars you have an excellent chance of being one of society's future leaders, you're they're perfect candidate.
- midoridensha 3y ago>It's funny, the Ivies are actually quite up front that they're goal is to pick "future leaders" of the country, not the most academically gifted students (though this is an important sub-group). The fact that there's a quota of students who are chosen for purely academic talents is particularly telling. Yep, they sure did a "heckuva job" picking America's President when Yale picked George W. Bush.
- stcroixx 3y agoFor every high profile failure like W, there are likely numerous other unqualified morons anointed by these institutions as ‘leaders’ running companies and doing overall much more damage. The Ivies are ripe to be burned to the ground.
- polski-g 3y agoThey had a ~1500 in 310m chance of picking someone who would become president. That is a pretty good job given its a 0.00048387096% chance of getting it right.
- ahzhou 3y agoIf the goal is to pick “future leaders”, Yale succeeded as far as admissions are concerned. I think it’s unreasonable to expect that an institution can predict what decisions a teenager will make in their 60’s.