Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few students they educate

Re:Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few... by vagrantJin on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:01PM (#26753804)

This rings true. Most of my friends now that I'm older are basically people I met at Uni or people I met through them. Kind of a weird thing to optimize for though.

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Re:Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few... by AnimalMuppet on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:48PM (#26754450)

I went to Random Public University. The contacts I made there are people who went to Random Public University. The people who go to Harvard make contacts who went to Harvard. If the people who went to Harvard are, on average, more valuable to have as contacts then the people I went to school with, then it makes perfect sense to optimize for that. The education you can get anywhere, but the valuable contacts you can't.

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Re:Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few... by quickthrowman on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:14PM (#26753956)

> Kind of a weird thing to optimize for though.

The part they left out is important: the endowment. They optimize for the endowment, and contributions towards it. “Elites” have the most money to contribute. It’s always about the money, of which Harvard has $40.9B.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_endowment

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Re:Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few... by lupire on Friday April 09, 2021 @03:27PM (#26754960)

Donors are about a quarter of the class, not all of it.

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Re:Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few... by MolHill on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:57PM (#26757961)

If you aren't paying, you're the product, per https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/the-uncharity-of-colle...

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