One of my big shocks was to learn from a friend who attended [Ivy League uni] that no one is ever kicked out even if they don't study bc that would ruin the uni's ratings. So basically you get accepted, your'e good.
Top-tier schools have been using & discarding high school kids for ages, advertising to students w/ low admittance odds to beef up rejection rates & boost USNWR rank. The tables might turn soon: top-tier students using acceptance letters to get ahead, forgoing the $200k educationhttps://twitter.com/Austen/status/1112753949914726401 …
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Otoh, I saw several people flunk out of Cornell.
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Are there LinkedIn profiles with "accepted but did not attend" in the education section yet? That will be the real evidence.
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I'd like to see a variant of 'Thiel Fellowships' that are not an offer to best-of-best (yet another level of selectivity), but a randomized experiment on those admitted but willing to accept a bribe to forgo enrollment in any selective schoolhttps://twitter.com/gojomo/status/1110307244703272965 …
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An acceptance letter probably holds a large % of the value added from attending a top university. I can't wait for the market to tell us how big that % is.
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"Acceptance letter" isn't quite parsed as a qualification yet, but I know people who've deliberately attended one semester and then left because, in the right circles, "Stanford dropout" signals 80% of what "Stanford graduate" does.
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Funny how "Stanford" can be an adjective or adverb. "to drop out, Stanfordly"
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Ain’t gonna get u a gig at a bracket bank 2 then hop 2 a HF or VC
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Acceptance letters can easily be forged
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