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Re:College Cheating Scandal: An Admissions Officer Speaks Out by ordinaryradical on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @02:05AM (#19376151)
A lottery will never happen as you laid out here. Not because it’s not a good idea but because it tarnishes the pedigree of the school. Being selected to attend Harvard and winning the lottery among those qualified to attend are so vastly different in the mind’s eye that there’s no way they’d take up this system.

Fundamentally, it risks their brand.

I think the real answer may still be the open sourcing of curriculum and teaching through online courses. Completing an education at Harvard should be inherently valuable whether or not you were selected for it. This is meritocratic but also realistic, I think.

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Re:College Cheating Scandal: An Admissions Officer Speaks Out by zamfi on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:46AM (#19376579)
The (magnet) elementary school I attended used a lottery to select among the top X% of applicants. It did not "tarnish the pedigree of the school" or anything like that.

There is already a lottery to select which students among the thousands who apply will be offered admission. It's just not uniformly random.

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Re:College Cheating Scandal: An Admissions Officer Speaks Out by TheLoneAdmin on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:13AM (#19378773)
You can't compare the reputation of a local elementary school versus Harvard.
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Re:College Cheating Scandal: An Admissions Officer Speaks Out by notyourday on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:34AM (#19379019)
There are pre-schools in NYC that have tuition comparable to the Harvard ones.
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Re:College Cheating Scandal: An Admissions Officer Speaks Out by notfromhere on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @11:23AM (#19379567)
The only thing it'll tarnish is Harvard's reputation for accepting the children of the elite.
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Re:College Cheating Scandal: An Admissions Officer Speaks Out by akhilcacharya on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:53AM (#19379201)
The education doesn't matter as much as the pedigree. At some point we're defeating the point of the elite schools.
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