Comment by kenjackson
4 days ago
Your German story doesn’t parse to me.
And yea, most of Harvards grads will be ordinary. And they could’ve just have easily gone to UMass. But a higher percentage will be leaders. And that’s the reason they admit who they do.
Essentially, the Germans are turning all the schools that I would have dismissed as 'what even is this' into something respectable, churning out good research, churning out good PhD students, etc.
Because they don't dismiss the places that I had dismissed, they transformed them.
Got it. Maybe some people will transform local state U.