Re:Secrets of Elite College Admissions
by strikelaserclaw on Sunday August 30, 2020 @06:17PM
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Harvard isn't trying to pump out just academics or engineers, lawyers and doctors. They want to pump out prominent businessmen, politicians, activists, fields like these have a looser correlation to raw technical ability and can't really be measured by sat scores or GPA
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but skin color can measure it?
Re:Secrets of Elite College Admissions
by strikelaserclaw on Sunday August 30, 2020 @08:36PM
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in some cases a most definite YES. America is not some post racial utopia, we are far away from Asians having prominence in politics or social life.
This could be because politics sucks and pay is low, so successful lawyer/doctor Asians do not want to participate in it.
One of the leading candidates in the DNC was Asian, this is about forced diversity from woke-ism
> fields like these have a looser correlation to raw technical ability
Citation needed.
Re:Secrets of Elite College Admissions
by strikelaserclaw on Sunday August 30, 2020 @06:32PM
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You think George Bush or Donald Trump got a 1600 on the SAT, valedictorian of their high school, and/or play the violin at a high level?
No, but they aren't really the examples of excellence you're looking for. :-)