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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it's an amazing school.

And it's funny that people think it's become less meritocratic--it's quite the opposite (same as most other elite schools).  Used to be (1950s-60s and earlier) if you were a reasonably well-off, high achieving student you could assume you could get in.  Add in legacy and you were golden.  There just wasn't that much competition.  Opening it up to diversity increased the pool and increased the competition.  Just look at accomplishments over time and the acceptance rate.  (Same story at many elite institutions).  This has been a steady rise to this point.  [/quote]

These people assume that as a school becomes less white it becomes less meritocratic. That’s the only way to demonstrate merit- don’t admit minorities. [/quote]

Oh please. The data is public for all to see. Harvard is 90+% either a) very wealthy and not the brightest or b) not the brighest but having the desired skin color.

Only 10% or so are there on their true merits. Again, the data is public thanks to the Harvard discrimination case. Look it up.[/quote]

Harvard parent here — upper middle class, public school, Asian. And I find this comment funny! You truly don’t know what you don’t know.

My DD knows several of the wealthy kids (not great friends with them or anything, but knows them from some of her classes.) From what I am hearing these kids have had the best education in high school (not surprising!) and are really motivated to pursue rigor in their courses. One kid takes graduate level courses as a freshman! That’s really motivated.

She also knows many URMs and says they are all very accomplished as well. Many went to boarding schools or are Gates Scholars etc — so very accomplished. No URM that she knows is not academically qualified to be there! They are all very smart and most studied more math in high school that my ASIAN daughter, who is a STEM major, studied.

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