Comment by Kon-Peki
21 days ago
> At many elite US universities the students now enter at a struggle because they have never read a novel cover to cover.
Meh, who cares? My son is a freshman at a large public high school in suburban Chicago. Yes, it’s “honors” English, but they read a novel cover-to-cover every 3-4 weeks. I get the weekly email from the school about which universities are visiting. Elite ones never visit, and as an Ivy League grad I get notified when they are in the area visiting more prestigious schools so I can schedule my son to go over to them for a visit (i.e. I know that they come visit in the area).
The elite schools have made their choice. They’ll discover their mistake later on.
Elite in the economic sense. Places like Harvard are anti-progressive and serve to gate keep opportunity and wealth.
If a visit from a Ivy League school is the difference from submitting a App or not, that's not really the schools problem.