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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yogi Berra would love this discussion.

Is interest in the Ivies fading? Sure, monody applies to them any more because they are too hard to get into. [/quote]

The Ivies had cachet when they were waspy elite clubby institutions. Then they had cachet when they were meritocracies. When they were no longer waspy nor meritocracies, they are not so interesting. [/quote]

Bingo.[/quote]

it was never a meritocracy. This is so nuts. I agree about the racist and sexist clubby phase. Then there was the "important to a certain kind of people, mostly UMC white and northeastern types who send their kids private schools or very very white and resourced high schools and can afford the 18k tuition fees bcs 100% of colleges took pay into account then" phase.  And now we're in the "open to the ROW phase, need blind". You have to be a lot smarter and a lot more accomplished now than in our day. That's merit. [/quote]

Eh, you need to check certain boxes and in you go to hang out for four years with other people who checked the boxes. Why would I hire for that over people with actual grit? I’m not on Wall Street or in Hollywood, so those connections won’t further my business.[/quote]

One of those boxes is being insanely smart. So go ahead and hire dumb kids who have grit. Which mostly seems to involve going to football games and getting wasted. [/quote]

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