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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remind my children, the purpose of a good education to learn and to grow as a person, not to wave a round a diploma, or throw your alma mater's sweatshirt in someone's face. It is unfortunate that the well-off (for the most part) use their privilege as a tool to gain/sustain entry, and as a tool to look down on others.

Harvard receives 60,000 applications a year (https://www.ivywise.com/blog/harvard-waitlist-how-hard-is-it-to-get-off-of-it/) if you are not one of the 3% that gets in, that must make you stupid, I guess (eye-roll emoji)...

Give the grandparents a thought exercise - what would the world look like if a great education was accessible and attainable for everyone?  The artists can study art, the scientists science, etc.  I think we would be better off as a species.

I attended CMU, and transferred to Northeastern (Physics major).  I was very surprised to find out CMU, NU, and MIT all used the same physics book?!  Then it dawned on me, you don't learn a different or "special" math at HYPSM... it's all the same stuff.  [/quote]

Math 216/218 at Princeton, Math 55 at Harvard, and math 20700/20800/20900 at UChicago are special - I don't know of any more rigorous freshman math courses anywhere.[/quote]

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