I am so tired of these myths about early admission

[UVADeanJ]

<p>We’re sure hoping to be surprised, Token. Yield will be tricky this year and especially tricky at UVa, where budget cuts will curtail some of our activities in the spring.</p>

[uml1958]

<p>Harvard and Princeton talk about the removal of EA/ED will help students from low-income backgrounds. Yet they have not committed to cut number of admission from the legacies, athletics and developers (like 20%). So the middle class kids would suffer as the result.</p>

[coureur]

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<p>THEY claim to care. I don’t know why they do, but they are singing the praises of their diversity commitment (of all types) loud & long & clear. Perhaps they are really convinced that without exposure to the ivy world, entire regions and socio-economic groups and ethnic sub-groups will be suffering.<<</p>
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<p>No, you have it backwards. The point of seeking enrollment diversity at high-end schools isn’t to somehow bless remote regions of the country or people who don’t care with some sort of Ivy league wonderfulness. The point is to enhance the education of the students who DO choose to enroll by exposing them to different sorts of people and different ways of viewing the world drawn from all parts of society.</p>

<p>So the point isn’t to expose all parts of the country to the Ivy world. It is to expose the otherwise cloistered Ivy world to all parts of the country.</p>

[mammall]

<p>coureur - I may be a cynic but I don’t think their motives are that altruistic. I think they are simply trying to innoculate themselves against public disdain for elitism. They are retaining the protected status for “their kind” – those left in the cold are the upper middle class kids who have wrecked themselves to put together achievements but now face wrecking their families’ finances by going to these schools, that’s if they even get selected, of course.</p>

[marite]

<p>^^It sounds not so much like public disdain for elitism as public envy toward elite institution. </p>

<p>If they are so worthy of disdain, why should there be
“upper middle class kids who have wrecked themselves to put together achievements but now face wrecking their families’ finances by going to these schools”? Why should they even apply to these schools?</p>

[burnedout21]

<p>bc these schools provide the inside track to status in America.</p>

[marite]

<p>Do they really? Have you looked up the list of CEOs and where they did their undergraduate studies?</p>

<p>But more importantly, if one disdains elitism in colleges, why should one want to get onto “the inside track to status in America?” Isn’t that desire elitist?</p>