How corrupt are Ivy League admissions?
Just before the Labor Day weekend, a front page New York Times
story broke the news of the largest cheating scandal in Harvard
University history, in which nearly half the students taking a
Government course on the role of Congress had plagiarized or otherwise
illegally collaborated on their final exam.1
Each year, Harvard admits just 1600 freshmen while almost 125 Harvard
students now face possible suspension over this single incident. A
Harvard dean described the situation as “unprecedented.”
During this period, we have witnessed a huge national decline in well-paid middle class jobs in the manufacturing sector and other sources of employment for those lacking college degrees, with median American wages having been stagnant or declining for the last forty years. Meanwhile, there has been an astonishing concentration of wealth at the top, with America’s richest 1 percent now possessing nearly as much net wealth as the bottom 95 percent.2 This situation, sometimes described as a “winner take all society,” leaves families desperate to maximize the chances that their children will reach the winners’ circle, rather than risk failure and poverty or even merely a spot in the rapidly deteriorating middle class. And the best single means of becoming such an economic winner is to gain admission to a top university, which provides an easy ticket to the wealth of Wall Street or similar venues, whose leading firms increasingly restrict their hiring to graduates of the Ivy League or a tiny handful of other top colleges.3 On the other side, finance remains the favored employment choice for Harvard, Yale or Princeton students after the diplomas are handed out.4
The Battle for Elite College Admissions
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This article is important because:
ReplyDelete- It plays Asians against Jews, which is quite Machiavellian of Unz.
- It shows that black / hispanic affirmative action has come at the expense of white (not Jewish) quotas in elite college admissions
- It shows that high IQ whites are the most underrepresented group in elite college admissions
- It shows that Jews are the most overrepresented group in elite college admissions (and it's due to nepotism, not academic merit).
Bravo.