diagnosis
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
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And so I had a very violent and traumatic upbringing and I wanted out of my home. I wanted out of Canada. And so..."
Key Notes
model
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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Jiang presents his adolescent Ivy League strategy as deliberate self-redesign: he lacked the expected traits, so he tried to manufacture the package that might get him out of Canada and home violence.
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Greg says Harvard's huge endowment and selective winner-making create the public perception that elite success in America is impossible without passing through a small set of schools.
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"And so I had a very violent and traumatic upbringing and I wanted out of my home. I wanted out of Canada. And so..."
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"I started my own club because no other club would let me in. And I started to do well in school because actually, you..."
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"yeah great points that's another thing that we don't have as much as we used to as the mentor mentee relationship and just bringing..."
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"$40 billion. It's invested. It's probably making more money. Even. But they don't share that with America. They don't contribute anything or donate that..."
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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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Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
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Jiang turns the Epstein files into a theory of war: social reality is a cave, the dollar is a consciousness trap, empire survives by looking invincible, and the exposed parasite network is already fighting...
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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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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