Some of the most "respectable" institutions in the country have built their brands in large part on issuing as many rejection letters to kids as they can manage. Let that sink in.
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This has been happening for decades, largely ignored. University rankings are boosted by rejecting hopeful teenagers rather than graduating brilliant creators and thinkers — the latter provides the real value, but the former is easy to measure. It's emergent sociopathy.https://twitter.com/Robillard/status/1192102804321648646 …
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I wrote about this last year, but it's nothing new.https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1031295901401116672 …
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Yeah, the incentive structure for universities is extremely fucked up. Seems like they’re running into Goodhart’s law here, exclusivity can be a decent proxy for a school’s reputation but it’s insanely bad as an optimization target.
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Universities are paperclip maximisers
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They used to say "Harvard is hard to get into, Chicago is hard to get out of" from which I assumed Chicago delivered a better education
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