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In Jiang’s admissions model, a multigenerational Harvard legacy or world-famous athlete beats the math genius because fame, presidency, and corporate power build the university brand.
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Legacy Admissions
In Jiang’s admissions model, a multigenerational Harvard legacy or world-famous athlete beats the math genius because fame, presidency, and corporate power build the university brand.
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"They have their own institutional reasons to let you in and they'll never tell you, all right? And the system was created to ensure..."
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"Basketball player in America, okay? Okay. The third is the best student. And the fourth is the best math genius in the world. And..."
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"We don't want professors, we don't want lawyers, we don't want doctors. We want people who will be head of a company. We want..."
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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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