But is it doing anybody a favor to accept them into a program if their likelihood of career success is very low? This applies to everybody from any background, privileged or not.
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Yep. We need to be honest about the fact that academia is a bit of a pyramid scheme.
Would it be ethical for med schools to take 4x times more students than could ever get jobs as doctors? In 'The Winner-Take-All Society', Robert @econnaturalist pointed out that most young adults over-estimate their chance of success in super-competitive career tracks....
