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 SamReidHughes on Friday April 09, 2021 @09:15PM (#26758067)

An actual top school can’t have too many students or else by necessity its best students would have to get a lower quality education by being surrounded by dumber students. So the top schools need to be relatively small in order to serve their purpose.

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Re:Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few... by strikelaserclaw on Saturday April 10, 2021 @03:07AM (#26759574)

The article mentions that there were many very qualified candidates who are routinely rejected due to artificial scarcity and that selection among such high quality candidates was arbitrary in many cases. So i doubt, you would be surrounded by dumb students even if you made incoming class sizes larger.

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Re:Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few... by SamReidHughes on Saturday April 10, 2021 @01:59PM (#26763486)

There is no need to bring up the article to point out an obvious fact. It's well known that top schools have imperfect admissions criteria. If they expand their class sizes, it will still be with imperfect admissions criteria, resulting in admitting dumber kids.

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