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Degrees from these schools serve as class signaling devices. They wouldn't be very effective if they recruited more than a token of poor or disadvantaged.
by trotsky 14y ago
Degrees from these schools serve as class signaling devices. They wouldn't be very effective if they recruited more than a token of poor or disadvantaged.
- thatthatis 14y agoSmart and connected is the new upper class. These universities select for smart and by their nature create the connections. There needs to be some number of smart and already connected students to maximize the value of the network, but the connection to alumni is on the average more valuable.
- trotsky 14y agoI assure you that previous privileged generations didn't refer to themselves as "rich and the right ethnicity".