<p>Yeah, it’s silly in so many ways. Harvard, and all schools for that matter, has to choose between taking academic superstars of all sorts of varieties, as well as having to choose between the truly artistically talented. The thing is, what can you do?</p>
<p>As my grandmother used to say, “Never marry potential ladies, marry the man the way he is.”</p>
<p>Who cares, really, if some genius creative type (and I am a creative type, so no negative bias) is toiling away in their head. How the heck is anyone supposed to know this? The number of talented people who fail to produce anything of value is very high. All these schools can base their judgement on is what is already on the table.</p>
<p>There are plenty of art schools for the heady artist to go and see what happens. </p>
<p>You can’t gauge talent from air, or a conversation. You can’t figure out whether the creative will be able to get what is in his or her head into a form anyone else will understand or value based on some unmeasurable vibe. I mean, maybe Harvard should hire some psychics or something?</p>