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2 timestamped hits 1 source reading 2 extracted notes Aliases: admission, admissions, holistic-admission

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holistic admissions

A multi-factor admissions regime presented as character evaluation but used, in Jiang’s account, to preserve elite control.

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Lecture claim on 2025-09-12.

diagnosis

Holistic admissions and character assessment were built as discretionary screens that could preserve alumni power and exclude disfavored groups while appearing morally selective.

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The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · glossary, claims

Reading

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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