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> this is how many rich people get their kids into Harvard too That's the entire point and feature of these elite institutions (more specifically, their underg
by KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
> this is how many rich people get their kids into Harvard too
That's the entire point and feature of these elite institutions (more specifically, their undergraduate division and business schools), to connect wealth with brilliant people. They are the traditional social institutions of innovation and entrepreneurship before incubators like YC were a thing. If you remove the wealth aspects, then the Ivies are no different than any other research state school.
- hinkley 3y agoThey’re worse. Aside from their football programs, none of these other schools have gotten as comfortable with looking the other way for The Greater Good.
- kelipso 3y agoIt's a great way to further entrench the influence of the rich into public life.
- AlbertCory 3y ago> brilliant people I think you meant "people who'd like to join the wealthy ones, or maybe already have."
- graphe 3y agoIf you wanted to make money, you would choose business over academia. I know one brilliant math/physics researcher who wanted to go to China because they have better scientific research equipment.