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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Mostly they want to build this class of future leaders. Their success in picking at least a few superstars is what keeps their brand active and their coffers full. The stats you see are the product of that subjective and perhaps wrong assessment of some of the smartest 17/18 year olds in the world. It results in a class where more high achieving Asian Americans don’t make it than similarly qualified peers. [/quote]

So Harvard thinks we don't want a bunch of grade-grubbing, test-prepping, exam-cheating, boring NPCs being our future leaders. Harvard is wrong about a lot of things but they might have something in this case.[/quote]

Harvard is no king maker.  The school is looking for leadership in their candidates and I suppose it can be apparant in a variety of ways.  Just having Harvard on one's resume does not guarantee success in life.  Same with Stanford.  My sibling is a Stanford Phd and can't hold down a job because sibling's personality kind of sucks (haughty, condescending, slightly asperger-ish, lots of denial). When I was a teen I worked in a bookstore with a recent Harvard grad.  That poor woman was so incapable and admitted to poor mathematical skills.  She also spoke a bit too loud. She was white.  I felt sorry for her mostly because after such a precious education she was working in a new age bookstore selling crystal crap.

I hung out with many Ivy products and you'd be surprised at the outcome. One of my colleagues is a Harvard alumn.  Really nice guy, but not exactly a groundbreaker and not looking to be. College does NOT make the person.  Like one person said, character is baked in by 19.  While it is nice to have the name on one's resume, life is still no cakewalk afterwards. If you go in without social capital, you might still leave with no social capital.  The school gives you 4 years of education and a degree, not a mission in life, not a purpose, not drive, creativity, wonder, determination.  That all has to be fostered from within by nature and nurture.

Plenty of people have managed to be leaders without Harvard.[/quote]

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