<p>Just a little more background… a little googling reveals that Suzy Lee Weiss’s sister is employed in publishing and was formerly an assistant editorial features editor at The Wall Street Journal. So Suzy might be viewed as something of a legacy herself, in getting published by the wsj.</p>
<p>I watched the Today video and although Suzy proclaims that she’s all for diversity, at the end she agrees that college admission should go to the most qualified.</p>
<p>You really can’t have it both ways! And what is “most qualified”? If you have, say 10,000 applicants who all reach a very high bar, isn’t the school entitled to build the class they want, to maintain or create their particular flavor? It’s not a simple question and I do feel for people on both sides of the divide.</p>
<p>I agree with a previous poster that Suzy never announces any concrete reasons for wanting to attend an Ivy League school, other than their “sexy” image. Maybe the AO’s could tell! And her own mother got tired of hearing her whining!</p>
<p>I understood the piece as provocative satire but I felt there was an underlying truthfulness as well as outright meanness.</p>
<p>I’m beginning to understand that most of the attraction of the Ivies is as a status symbol or a ticket to a particular segment of employment, or even as the Meritocracy article posits, as a path to leadership in American politics. Not really because of the actual education, although I’m not implying the education is bad.</p>
<p>Maybe what we really need is a PR campaign to raise the perceived reputations of the many wonderful schools and colleges out there.</p>