@Twoin18. . . Okay, I understand, you need to protect the honor of your prior post with link. J/k, I enjoyed reading it…
But here, rather, is an Englishman protecting the honor of his alma mater; in addition, he’s a noted contrarian. I don’t doubt that his purpose, albeit satirically, is to shoot down any colonist institution; he’s undoubtedly old-school British => take a lot of what he says with a grain of salt.
I view persons who play sports in high school as engaging in a high-caliber extra curricular. There is abuse, of course, but it wouldn’t be at Harvard. Additionally, it’s been proven that those who play sports have a greater probability of holding high positions of leadership in corporations, government, etc.
Why is David Hogg at Harvard; does he fulfill H’s social-justice cohort? In your opinion, is he just a great talking head with nothing behind it – and I realize he “only” scored a 1300 on the SAT?
Re, your last paragraph,
A really high % of those who choose Harvard is based on a self-selective process (big word here), and undoubtedly helped considerably by their parents. This is why Harvard’s yield is so incredibly high and of course, the higher the yield, the less students it has to accept. Really smart people with undecided futures will overwhelmingly choose H over any other institution. If they want to be engineers and have wanted to since they were young, yeah, they may choose MIT or some other college.