Let's make higher education truly higher education by also eliminating legacy admissions. The elites have been big supporters of affirmative action because it didn't affect them or their offspring. Lower/middle class whites and later Asians were the ones who lost out a chance at the big leagues.
The old answer to the question of how do you get to Carnegie Hall was practice. Assuming you have talent to begin with, the answer to how do you get to the best colleges should be work hard and study.
I also take issue with the notion that the elites are better educated than working/middle class people. The blue-collar engineers who replaced my heating and AC system are better educated than the kid that emerges from the Ivy League with a MA that is marshmallow soft like so much of the MAs these days are. The newly minted MA holder has just been in school longer.
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Let's make higher education truly higher education by also eliminating legacy admissions. The elites have been big supporters of affirmative action because it didn't affect them or their offspring. Lower/middle class whites and later Asians were the ones who lost out a chance at the big leagues.
The old answer to the question of how do you get to Carnegie Hall was practice. Assuming you have talent to begin with, the answer to how do you get to the best colleges should be work hard and study.
I also take issue with the notion that the elites are better educated than working/middle class people. The blue-collar engineers who replaced my heating and AC system are better educated than the kid that emerges from the Ivy League with a MA that is marshmallow soft like so much of the MAs these days are. The newly minted MA holder has just been in school longer.