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Harvard could easily expand their student body. They haven't kept up with population growth. They could easily double or triple their size But it would reduce t
by bko 3y ago
Harvard could easily expand their student body. They haven't kept up with population growth. They could easily double or triple their size But it would reduce the prestige. Plus they're sitting on 50bn endowment. In general people look at admittance rate as a proxy for worth. Doubling the size means doubling the acceptance rate. The one thing many people know about harvard is that it's hard to get into, and by design. InI'm imagine yc is similar.
I'm saying their bar is BS. You're not going to convince me they can meaningfully evaluate tens of thousands of apps.
- robertlagrant 3y ago> I'm saying their bar is BS. You're not going to convince me they can meaningfully evaluate tens of thousands of apps. That just depends on how you define "meaningfully evaluate". That definition makes it feasible or not, I think. Companies perform some level of evaluation at scale on hiring, and it's not perfect, but it's not bad, I think.