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Why do elite colleges pump students into the same five industries: law, medicine, tech, investing, and management consulting?
For answers, let’s turn to the philosopher René Girard. https://t.co/87x6WKEazK
“There is something very odd about a society where the most talented people get all tracked toward the same elite colleges, where they end up studying the same small number of subjects and going into the same small number of careers… It’s very limiting for our society as well as for those students.”
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
What's wrong with American higher education? Are colleges corrupt? Greedy? Woke?
I worked for 12 years to earn my BA, MA, and PhD in History. I'm now a professor at one of the more conservative Christian colleges in America.
A 🧵 on what US colleges get wrong. 1/27 https://t.co/eqYSHQAoQc
1981 memo on hiring from Bear Sterns
Sought ppl with a degree in PSD - poor, smart and a deep desire to get rich
Warns agst MBAs
Co died 37 years later
Prob started hiring MBAs https://t.co/uUhFgac9Yp
I’ve been hearing in the Industry lately across IB, S&T, PE shops etc that Ivy League kids and other target grads (athletes excluded) are no longer first hiring choice as everyone is experiencing their sense of entitlement day 1.
Preference for strong state school work ethic
Gordon Gekkox.com
If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes.
It's 'holistic review' and 'ban SAT' policy that allows the most wealthy and powerful to virtue signal while getting an... See more
