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Perfectly said.

Social engineering to benefit the current elite while selecting a few token representatives from the real world doesn’t do a thing to help 99% of this country.



Harvard has way more than legacy admissions. Why do you care anyway ? In your head it mustn't be good with all these "legacy admissions".


There is an elite/political/ruling class in the US, and one way they maintain their status is through a false sense of meritocracy.

For example, GW Bush isn't just a spoiled rich kid and son of a former President, he went to Yale and Harvard, thus he can be marketed as smart and hardworking because those are the top institutions in the country.

Yet, no one ever accused GW of being a Rhodes scholar, and those Ivy League credentials are nearly impossible for non-elites, but essentially given to the ruling elite and qualifying these people for the best jobs, even being President of the US. Legacy Admissions are a fraud on the working class, and indicative why the US has the lowest social mobility of any 1st world nation.


A counter point 3 of my friends who had no money from India got accepted into Harvard purely on the merit of their talents. Same with the son of a blue collar worker here. You have conveniently setup a shield in your head where this ceiling will never let you break it. Well, how about you look inside and grow yourself ? Instead of calling yourself not a part of the "elite".


"Merit" doesn't exist and can't be defined.

Anyways I doubt anybody from India with "no money" can get into Harvard. ("No money" in India means begging on the streets or subsistence farming..)


They couldn't afford to pay the fees. They got full rides.


Barely anybody in India can pay $60k a year (30x GDP per capita) of course they’d get full rides!

That doesn’t mean “no money”, it just means “probably upper middle to upper class”.


I know people who have paid . Upper class can be very rich too.


The current US president launders this credibility as well (he talks about Wharton more than W talked about Yale) and transferred it to his kids despite being a transfer student.




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