Comment by nonethewiser
6 days ago
>The American university system is undeniably impactful on American success over the last century.
Merit based reforms would only help. What kind of DEI programs did Harvard have 100 years ago?
6 days ago
>The American university system is undeniably impactful on American success over the last century.
Merit based reforms would only help. What kind of DEI programs did Harvard have 100 years ago?
> And merit based reforms would help continue this.
I look forward to some.
This ain't it.
Ill settle for agreeing in principle that Harvard should be merit based
> What kind of DEI programs did Harvard have 100 years ago?
Amongst others, legacy admissions and discrimination against Jews, Catholics and non-whites. Let’s not pretend that Harvard’s admissions process, or American society more generally, was some kind of perfect meritocracy in 1925.