Re: alas, no campus commies at harvard
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
. Is it that easy to get
into Harvard these days with logic skills like Hastrup’s?
If you’re a “legacy” — an alumni kid. Especially if your dad (these days, your mom, too, I guess) is a big donor. At Princeton, my alma, legacies have about a 33% chance of admission as opposed to less than 10% for the general population. It’s probably the same at Harvard.
I recently learned from my sister-in-law, a Harvard senior, that they have a thing called the Z-List there, for the dumbest, richest legacies, who are admitted only on the condition that they take a year off before entering to do something to make them more “interesting.” I asked my Yale ‘75 class list if they’d heard of anything similar at the Old Blue Mother, and one said yeah, her freshman roomie was one.
Doug