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Modern meritocracy succeeded for Harvard by making admission scarce, growing its endowment, producing billionaires, and placing Harvard/Ivy graduates throughout the American elite.
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Elite Overrepresentation
Modern meritocracy succeeded for Harvard by making admission scarce, growing its endowment, producing billionaires, and placing Harvard/Ivy graduates throughout the American elite.
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"Okay? So, in the year 1940, 90 % of applicants to Harvard got accepted. Now, it's gone way down to 5%. Okay? Stanford is..."
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"Okay? And you have MIT, Stanford, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Princeton. Guess what, guys? Ivy League plus MIT. Okay? Okay. $30 million. Still, Harvard..."
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"They dominate in terms of philosophers and professors. But they're everywhere. Even Pulitzer Prize winners, billionaires, New York Times bestselling authors, Fortune 500 CEOs,..."
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The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...
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