Who ‘Deserves’ to Go to Harvard

MWolf
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:23:29 +0000

Again, Harvard is a private institution, and honestly, the only people who we can say “deserve” to go there in any way or manner, are the kids whose super-wealthy parents donated millions to the university for that purpose. Kids who go to Harvard, or Yale, or Princeton, or any one of the selective private colleges out there, do so because the college selected them.

Acceptance to a selective college is not a prize that a kid gets for doing well in high school. Admission to a selective private college is not an inalienable right of every high school graduate who has high grades and high SAT scores.

Everybody deserves to be accepted to Harvard as much as everybody else, because nobody actually “deserves” to go to a private college. Harvard university does not “owe” acceptance to any applicant out there for any reason.

@Riversider Out of interest, why do you use the term “scholars” only for middle class Asian high school graduates? Why don’t you consider URM applicants to be “scholars”?