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...Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way,” Kopp wrote that she started the company with a rallying cry: “We are a group of recent graduates who believe that today’s brightest, most motivated students of every race and academic major should join together to help the United States...
...meritocratic” bent it should have is unfounded and represents the danger of parochial belief in what the Harvard student should be. The College prides itself on the breadth and depth of its student body, and, in attracting our generation’s best and brightest, strives to develop those students that they may become leaders and engineers of worldwide progress. As I understand, Dean Fitzsimmons and his staff set about each year to assemble a class of individuals. Harvard could easily fill its ranks with valedictorians or 1600s (apologies, 2400s). It deliberately chooses not to do so because...
...college admissions process confounds even the brightest students. The year long process of marketing oneself, claiming that each target school is the “favorite,” and then finally settling on the “right” choice can easily lead to disillusionment and frustration. Getting rid of early action will ease these daunting barriers, but the process cannot be truly meritocratic as long as preferences are given to alumni and athletes.The complex admissions process supposedly distinguishes the qualified from the unqualified, the very best from the merely very, very good. The current process, however...
...employers, internships provide a pool of raw but talented labor from which they can cherry-pick the best and brightest. Among college interns, 90% report job offers from their employers, says CareerExposure.com. Employers rank students' internships and job experiences above grade-point averages in hiring - not surprising in an era when companies from Lockheed Martin to NASA have to engage etiquette trainers to teach new hires just how to shake hands...
...lefty (or even a Democrat). I don’t intend this to be a screed about the evils of capitalism. What Amaranth can teach us, rather, is the need for a little humility. The people at Amaranth were the best and the brightest. They were graduates of the best colleges. They took fairly rigorous math and economics courses, where they probably learned Portfolio Theory and Black-Scholes option pricing models. And to be fair, most of what was taught worked most of the time. But then a kind of lethal hubris began to settle in. They began to believe...