Is an elite education more merit based than ever?

[mrmillersd]

http://gawker.com/5734064/jfks-unimpres ... pplication



In those days, you had to be a kennedy, cabot, adams to get into Harvard. Now, harvard has over 50% of its students who recieve federal financial aid. Over 45% on pell grants, and the most diverse class ever.

[Cornfed]

Surely it is less merit based than ever, with the student body consisting entirely of ruling class tossers and their exotic housepets (females, blacks, hispanics etc.). Smart, authentic human beings need not apply.

[Jester]

Surely it is less merit based than ever, with the student body consisting entirely of ruling class tossers and their exotic housepets (females, blacks, hispanics etc.). Smart, authentic human beings need not apply.

Cynical PC conformity is probably a requirement today. In other words, you should be a self-promoting commie, or else a cynical lying ass-kissing corporate-lackey type.

It was a lot like that when I was there in the late 1970's, but at that time there was still some backtalk among some disgruntled party-boy preps (and their friends and hangers-on, i.e. me). My impression from alumni magazines is that all resistance has now been silenced. Campus debates are now over things like which bathroom the transgendered things should use.

Men who want to keep their balls should consider other places, not the Ivy League.

[mrmillersd]

did you just prove my point though?

in 1950, if you didnt go to new england prep school you couldn't even apply to harvard. now, even if you went to public school you have a chance. blacks, asians, hispanics are all allowed to apply for admissions....before this wasnt the case.


before everyone was a prep school lax bro. now, there are inner city kids, kids from africa/world, hipsters, etc.

deny it all you want, but getting into the top 1% in america is easier than ever before

[Repatriate]

If ivy leagues were truly merit based you'd see something like 60% asian-american enrollment at each with Jews making up the other 30% and maybe 10% other. That's why ivy's started discriminating against asians in the application process.

[mrmillersd]

Hmm there may be a BIT more asians but i dont see what youre getting at....

i got a 2030 on my SAT. 3.5 gpa. However, I represented the USA in an international competition. I also published a book....


Im sure there is an army of 4.0 2400 asians who are pissed, but do they really add more to the community?

"merit" is in the eye of the school. Princeton thinks athletes have the most merit, considering over 50% of the student body is on a varsity team. Brown..not so much.

[Cornfed]

did you just prove my point though?

in 1950, if you didnt go to new england prep school you couldn't even apply to harvard. now, even if you went to public school you have a chance. blacks, asians, hispanics are all allowed to apply for admissions....before this wasnt the case.

But they are getting there based on lack of merit rather than merit. It is because females, blacks and mestizos are intrinsically genetically inferior that they are targeted for affirmative action placings, since they are not considered a threat to the hegemony of their elite masters in the way that white men might be. No-one is pushing for affirmative action scholarships for minorities like Anglo-Saxons, Greeks or whoever. Only the genetically dismeritous need apply.

[Jester]

did you just prove my point though?

in 1950, if you didnt go to new england prep school you couldn't even apply to harvard. now, even if you went to public school you have a chance. blacks, asians, hispanics are all allowed to apply for admissions....before this wasnt the case.


before everyone was a prep school lax bro. now, there are inner city kids, kids from africa/world, hipsters, etc.

deny it all you want, but getting into the top 1% in america is easier than ever before

Yes, if you're a cyncial, lying corporate lackey-type willing to kiss PC ass, OR if you're a self-aggrandizing commissar, then it IS easier.

Point taken.

[Cornfed]

deny it all you want, but getting into the top 1% in america is easier than ever before

On the contrary, America and the West generally are all sewn up now. You are either one of the old hereditary ruling class, one of their Uncle Tom-type tame lackeys they might throw a bone to, or you will be reduced to poverty at some point. In the past the average bright, talented guy might have been able to get into a good school based on merit (actual merit involving getting high marks in fair exams, not bullshit "merit" involving "contributing to the diversity of the university environment" or similar nonsense). Then he might get a job working on the counter in, say, a bank, work his way up and become a multimillionaire investment banker. Now he would have no chance. To become an investment banker he would have to have the right parents and be introduced to the right people in his teens, or fit the profile to be one of their well-kept pets. There is little if any merit based advancement in the West any more.

[Jester]

In the past the average bright, talented guy might have been able to get into a good school based on merit (actual merit involving getting high marks in fair exams, not bullshit "merit" involving "contributing to the diversity of the university environment" or similar nonsense). Then he might get a job working on the counter in, say, a bank, work his way up and become a multimillionaire investment banker. Now he would have no chance. To become an investment banker he would have to have the right parents and be introduced to the right people in his teens, or fit the profile to be one of their well-kept pets. There is little if any merit based advancement in the West any more.

So true.