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Anechoic on July 19, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge ...

pivoting to a productive, merit-based approach

For the right definitions of "merit", yes. I'm not confident we've figured that part out yet.

abirch on July 19, 2023 [–]

We can't even define the purpose of college. E.g., is it only graduating and Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, ..., Mark Zuckerberg are all failures?

Meritocracy works best if you have something to measure against.

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