Said it before, say it again: Harvard's sin wasn't trying to balance qualities besides tests scores. That's reasonable. It was their blatant fudging of the scores on personality qualities of Asian applicants to make the numbers come out the way they wanted. https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1050693912720015361 …
I'm with you. The education in the honors program at a state university is easily as good as you're going to get at Harvard/Stanford, etc. And the networking advantages of elite schools are way exaggerated.