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The Ron Unz link I share below shows this is not an accurate picture. Plenty of high scoring "hicks" do apply to the ivy league but tend to be turned down. Part
by a8da6b0c91d 12y ago
The Ron Unz link I share below shows this is not an accurate picture. Plenty of high scoring "hicks" do apply to the ivy league but tend to be turned down. Participating in 4-H has been shown to have a large negative impact on your application! At elite colleges there is clearly a strong anti rural bias.
- nooron 12y agoHi a. I've followed you around HN for a while. I can count at least a dozen times where I've begun to write a comment about one of your comments. Really. So it's a strange honor to see you responding to me. Anyway, you drive me mad, and I'd be very willing to have a public debate about pretty much anything with you, provided it was teleconferenced. I've read the Unz article start to finish thrice as it was recommended to me by a dear friend, fellow semite (though he's mostly Mizrahi, and I'm largely Ashkenazi) and recent H grad. It's like a big turd taken after a visit to the cinema -- a pile of crap with kernels of truth in its midst. I agree that our current college selection process is not ideal nor Pareto efficient, but I reject Unz's suggestions on how to reform them as well as the real nature of the problem. If you'd like to have a long and serious debate on Unz, let's do it somewhere other than in this thread. How's a month from now? I need some time to prepare. Edit: Somewhere to start: https://sites.google.com/site/nuritbaytch/ https://sites.google.com/site/nuritbaytch/ & http://andrewgelman.com/2013/02/12/that-claim-that-harvard-admissions-discriminate-in-favor-of-jews-after-checking-the-statistics-maybe-not/ http://andrewgelman.com/2013/02/12/that-claim-that-harvard-a...