Harvard and the Colleges of the Rich and Poor Are Changing Values

Sally Kohn: It would be significantly mitigating if Harvard led in a bunch of snooty, rich white kids and steered them into do-gooder careers. She says it's not at all what happens. A sociologist at University of California, San Diego named Amy Binder shows that students really don't have any idea what they're going to do when they come to college.Kohn: Eventually, every metric that these colleges are prioritizing a proxy is for wealth. Maritocracy is a double-edged sword. If you say that rich people deserve theirstatus, then you say that poor people deserve their status too.