Harvard to offer theater major

connections
Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:18:56 +0000

I have to agree hopenest (after the explanation). Definitely Ivy league colleges admit based on wealth and connections (among other factors). Yes, why wouldn’t they? They need donors and connected alums. There are all sorts of stats about this and books have been written about this. To clarify–Need blind doesn’t mean that you stand an equal chance of getting admitted if your parents earn $75,000/year versus if your dad is one of the top 300 wealthiest people in the US. Colleges can still easily tell who has extreme wealth–name recognition, even the address (eg Park Avenue on the Upper East Side). And they certainly can tell if you are Y celeb’s child or Z Royal Person’s child. Not to say they don’t value driven lower income students–they do, and they generously support them.

But this is sort of off topic, isn’t it? I thought we were talking about the article and I agree with arwarw very much–Yale is wonderful, of course, but it is not the default undergrad theatre school. Brown is also excellent and, in point of fact, Northwestern, where my D goes, arguably has a better undergrad theatre program than Yale.