1/ Ivy's league schools are privilege factories for many, many reasons. This is just an obvious and egregious one.https://twitter.com/AP/status/1105494854761660416 …
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2/ My hometown has a magazine. I see these articles every year and they piss me off. (This one is June 2006). They're celebratory: "look how great our kids are doing!" But...pic.twitter.com/WRO26Qkbc3
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3/ Students from Christopher Columbus typically underperform. That school and the half-dozen or so elementary schools that feed it... ...they're a lot poorer.
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4/ The 4 out of the top 10 students statistic? This is the narrowest region of the funnel for a school that has a typical graduating class size of around 1000 people. Meanwhile, I have lots of friends who went to tiny private schools where not getting into an Ivy was scandalous.
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5/ Like yea, fuck the people who explicitly bribed their kids into a position of privilege... ...but the boundary is way less crisp than all that.
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Replying to @generativist
This is big concern when we're doing admissions at Oxford. Figuring out how to properly account for privilege that private schools buy one (called public schools here in the UK; just to confuse me). Thankfully CS isn't big targeted for biggest privilege factories, but still...
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Replying to @kaznatcheev
How do you try to do so? I've really only thought about it in passing, but it seems like a tightly-knotted problem.
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Replying to @generativist
It extremely tightly-knotted. There is only so much that can be done by time of college admissions (you should see how skewed our applicant pool is). But I aim to evaluate people on teachability & how much they'll benefit from Ox style tutorial system vs. existing knowledge base.
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I hope you're the norm. (I expect you are not.)
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