Anywhere the Varsity Blues Scandal landed is a school where bribing an unqualified kid in has a reliable return on investment, meaning there's no real risk of failing out. Cheating and nepotism are the words of the day.
Harvard wasn't in that one, but they have a cheating scandal every few years. Sparknotes was made by Harvard guys because it's just the ubiquitous Harvard "collaboration" study protocol for finals. Everybody reads one of the assigned books and writes what is effectively a SparkNote. Everybody reads one book plus class-specific SparkNotes.
When a school is actually legit, this is the type of shit you see. Unfortunately, this is only a local headline because nobody cares about the pursuit of excellence anymore.
I have definitely heard that Ivy league schools are fairly easy once you've made it in. I'm sure money and influence goes far, but the Ivy leaguers I have met who made it in to these schools are all gifted as hell.
Right. I'm not saying that it's 100% legacies and AA. There are plenty of high IQ people there.
The problem is that easy to get out of is a hugely significant red flag. These are high IQ people, sure...who approach real world intellectual challenges like high school students.
Employers and grad schools use undergrad admissions as an absolute indicator of a person's worth, and they really shouldn't. Every class that is for the Glory of Social Justice is a class that isn't pursuing truth wherever it leads. They're churning out high IQ people who think they're smarter than they are, and are used to subverting and manipulating systems to get their way. They're steeped in pilpul, and it has a drastic effect on the way they view the world.
It's time to stop pretending that they're meaningfully anything other than religious institutions, the SJW equivalent of an oncologist that wants to treat your melanoma with prayer and speaking in tongues.
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