A Caltech, Reed, MIT, Williams, or Princeton education?
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Why bother to attend if the easily-earned diploma no longer signals a serious depth of intellectual achievement?
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Because the hard-fought admission letter signals a serious depth of… something. The Harvard name has always been valuable over and above the Harvard education. After all, it’s not as if “show me your transcript so I can see your course rigor and GPA” is a typical response to “I went to college in Boston".