Bwrk?

jmmom
Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:02:36 +0000

The “I’ve gotten straight A’s, edited my school newspaper, and want to get into a good law school to land a top job with a corportate mergers firm” is not a pitch that has much appeal to academics rooted in their own college experiences during more activist times.

I am drawn to your theory. As a flower-child era college kid myself, I can really see my cohort - now in the power elite of academia - thinking precisely as you outlined. Of course, the admissions gang is by and large a much younger group, so this idea would not be innate with them. It would have to trickle down from the President’s office/Trustees etc for your theory to hold. Do you think that’s how it works?