From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones

Re:From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Mic... by alexashka on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:37PM (#15249690)

Harvard is for rich kids, and some extremely capable, to keep up appearances of 'we're not just a rich kids club, we're a real university', plus to make sure there's at least a few intelligent people running things in the long run.

The extremely capable do all the work, while the rich get to intermingle.

The extremely capable of course are carefully vetted to be fully indoctrinated in the system - you have to want to be part of the rich club - a true capitalist.

Not only is this lady out of prison not interested in being part of the rich club, nobody in the rich club wants her to be in!

Hence, she's not welcome at Harvard.

Of course Harvard can't come out and say that, but they're well versed in doublespeak [0], and this'll soon be forgotten.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak

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Re:From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Mic... by johan_larson on Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:59PM (#15252853)

I wonder. Harvard certainly admits some on the basis of criteria other than academic merit. It favours legacy students. It gives an advantage to historically mistreated minorities. And it wouldn't be surprising if it tried to curry favour with the powerful by admitting their less-than-brilliant offspring, too.

But even with all that, my impression is that the bar is still pretty darn high. Even the stupid Harvard grads are pretty capable.

Is that true? Any Harvard alums or faculty want to speak for or against this notion?

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Re:From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Mic... by alexashka on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:10PM (#15253537)

You're being incredibly naive if you think folks from Harvard bother with reading HackerNews.

This place is for suckers, real capitalists read Forbes :)

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