<p>Interesting review of Ivy League Admissions</p>
<p>Thanks for posting this. It's helpful for a couple of PF discussions, for those of us who were contributing to those.</p>
<p>Great article.</p>
<p>It shows the history of Harvard and other ivy league school's discrimination against minorities like Jews and Asians.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting this. I remember first reading this article over a year ago. It's nice that people keep reposting it for new cc users to read.</p>
<p>Oh silly me - I thought it was new - was looking at the wrong date! I hope newbies enjoy it.</p>
<p>The article is interesting not because it is insightful, but because it provides a fascinating history of the current byzantine admissions system. </p>
<p>As a side note, my own life is proof that you don't even need to be capable of getting into an ivy (but choose not to go) in order to compete with these types. I never had the grades, or academic smarts, to compete at that level. Without a hook, I went to a third-tier engineering school (around 100 in the US News list) for my degree. In order to get around the preposterous walls that most employers put up against graduates of such schools, after graduation I took a dead-end job at a semi-prestigious institution. I was subsequently hired by a "prestigious" engineering company, where after just 5 years I had a bunch of MIT, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Caltech grads working for me, many of them lacking the skills or temperament to do my job.</p>
<p>Intelligent kids with a good work ethic and basic curiosity about the world around them will have much better careers than extremely ambitious types highly skilled in just a few things.</p>
<p>I keep getting shut out at page 5 of the article. Thank you for posting anyway.</p>