William Deresiewicz on the “Excellent Sheep” of the American Elite
The Good Fight
The Importance of Academic Pursuit in College
The admissions policies determine how students spend all of the high school years, he says. The worst thing about the admission system is that they're encouraging a million high schoolers to you know chase being present of his random club and founding some random club. That's what Harvard really wants is to have lots of intellectuals running around but I don't think they want 90% of their school to look like that 10%. "These are elite creating institutions they're not intellectual creating institutions"
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