I just learned about the common tactic at elite US universities called “recruit to deny” wherein students are encouraged to apply with the expectation that they will be denied, boosting the institution’s rejection rate and thus increasing its ranking. 
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We work in a terrible industry
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I no longer call it academia. It’s a capitalist industry like any other, maybe worse.
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