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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know plenty of MIT grads who are not writers. I'm not shocked that there are Harvard kids who are top 1% in something who are not great at calc. Not everyone can be everything.[/quote]

pre-calc is not top 1% for a college student and certainly not for a student at Harvard [/quote]

Says who? This is who Harvard wants. What you want for Harvard is something else. It is your expectations that need adjustment.[/quote]

I agree.  This point seems lost based on many comments.  What a person thinks or feels a college/university should value or prioritize does not always align to the school's values and mission.  Harvard puts in place a program to educate students and people are mad it's not [b]the right[/b] students.

It is interesting that with almost 3,000 4-year colleges, folks get worked up over this one.  I mean, how many students out of their undergraduate enrollment are even taking this class?  Not sure why folks care so much.  Alum maybe?[/quote]

Sure, I mean Harvard can place more emphasis on diversity and race over aptitude and merit all it wants. But Harvard grads can't cry later as they start tanking in ratings and the Harvard name brand becomes more synonymous with slightly above mediocre rather than excellence. Employers take note and will draw less and less from less qualified Harvard candidates. What took 300 years to build in terms of name brand and excellence is going to be demolished in only 20 years because of overemphasizing race and diversity above all else. Have fun with that fallout.

Tbh, Harvard has already reached a breaking point and is past the point of no return. Grads from schools like MIT, CalTech, Rice, GAtech, CMU, Princeton, etc. are more impressive.  And in terms of the world, I doubt Harvard is even top 20 anymore.  Grads from Tsinghua, National University of Singapore, University of Tokyo, Oxbridge, Imperial College of London, etc. are all more impressive grads.

Many other countries in the world give zero craps about diversity at all costs. Americans would be in for a shocking eye opener if they looked at global rankings. US schools are falling fast, because they're backsliding into medicority due to identity politics.  China is eating US' lunch now in engineering and STEM. US continues to go down the tubes because we do is enroll mediocre students like at Harvard who now need remedial algebra - the same class Asian students have mastered since about the 4th grade. [/quote]

This is not true.  The very top layer of harvard is still very impressive.  But the harvard brand generally doesn't carry the same weight it used to.  We have all seen companies that used to almost exclusively recruit at ivy+ casting wider nets because of the inconsistency of the graduates (and not just the URM graduates, all the graduates),[/quote]

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