Are Harvard Graduates Better Than Harvard Dropouts?

Among educated Americans, however, I suspect there’s another factor at work: elite overproduction. In the 1990s and 2000s, smart young Americans were told that a college education was the ticket to a career that wasn’t just high-paying, but also deep, fulfilling, and meaningful. And even if that was true for the median college graduate, there were ... See more

The Mental Costs. Suppose Stanford or Harvard accepts a high performer for business school. Two years later, this person might emerge with a degree from one of the finest institutions of business learning in the world, and ask themselves, “What’s next?” Well, unfortunately, because they have a $200,000 degree from an elite school, every single opti

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Thiel fellowship should compete head on with Harvard. Backing up: Thiel Fellowship was started with the intent to show that you could get 20 kids a year to drop out of school and that they would be more successful as a result. It's clearly been a runaway success and the results… Show more

If kids are reading this, depending on who you are, college is probably still worthwhile right now, but 5 years from now, I expect things will be quite different. Peter Thiel has run a really interesting experiment with his Thiel Fellows program whose graduates (including Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin) have done far better than university propon... See more