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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by halfmatthalfcat on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:37PM (#29595434)
Is a Harvard education really that spectacular anymore or is it more a social indicator? Feels like it’s prominence has wained over the past couple decades.
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by DarylZero on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:01PM (#29595771)
The education is probably nothing special but it's more about the social network.
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by Jtype on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:18PM (#29599056)
If you cut down on legacies then you lose the advantage of the social network. Kind of a catch-22.
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by nitrogen on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:56PM (#29600763)
Not entirely. If the selection process ensures that the brightest (and luckiest) minds are all together, they will still be able to benefit one another over time, even if they didn't gain access to capital or connections beyond their cohort.
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by brian-armstrong on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:33PM (#29599176)
Amazing to think that one movie could change a college's appearance so profoundly!
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by DarylZero on Saturday December 18, 2021 @04:07PM (#29608510)
What movie?
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by dragonwriter on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:27PM (#29601302)
> Is a Harvard education really that spectacular anymore or is it more a social indicator?

Harvard has always been a social indicator that is also decent educationally in some areas (but not, AFAIK, superlative in any undergraduate field.)

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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by xapata on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:11PM (#29600422)
It is not clear that formal education in general is a causal factor for lifetime income, or merely a symptom of the same underlying cause(s).
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by skyde on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:29PM (#29596182)
if Harvard is not spectacular then what is? I mean what is replacing it’s role?
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by hcurtiss on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:22PM (#29599535)
MIT
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by pirate787 on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:15PM (#29599979)
Princeton
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by sova on Friday December 17, 2021 @09:54PM (#29601122)
IIT
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by selimthegrim on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:13PM (#29601231)
When IIT research is knocking people's socks off, let me know.
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by sova on Sunday December 19, 2021 @02:57PM (#29617703)
I was thinking more about power shifts, not inequitable comparisons :D
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