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Elite admissions officers may operate by this power logic, but most non-elite schools are mainly trying to enroll paying students.
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Elite Schools
Elite schools stay famous because they maintain a diversified portfolio: mostly safe rich legacies and athletes, with a small risk slot for marginal high-upside applicants.
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Elite schools stay famous because they maintain a diversified portfolio: mostly safe rich legacies and athletes, with a small risk slot for marginal high-upside applicants.
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"Like, does all the admission officers in American college doing this intentionally?"
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"...like the school, this is the mentality of admissions officers for elite schools. But most schools are just like, they want you to come..."
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"So let's say if Harvard and Princeton are these college students, then why they're still so famous, because the system is just unreasonable and..."
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"Okay. All right. That's a really good question, okay? So why are Harvard students, Yale students, Princeton students so famous? Okay. The reason why..."
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"...his career at Dalton. Dalton is one of the most prestigious elite schools in America. We're all the most powerful, wealthiest, family -centered children,..."
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"...you look at the top people, they all went to the elite schools, okay? So the system is set up so that if you..."
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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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