On: Harvard Discriminates Against Middle-Class Kids

[slt2021]

Harvard's reputation is absolutely diminished, you can ask around millenials/zoomers to get a sense of true harvard rep.

STEM types absolutely dont wanna go to harvard for example - why try to push there and deal with bs of racial discrimination? if you can get better engineering education at CMU/MIT/Caltech, heck even Ohio State has pretty decent engineering progam

[tomtheelder → slt2021]

This is absolute nonsense. Young people are overwhelmingly pro affirmative action, and none of this has damaged Harvard’s rep at all.

For STEM students it was just never as good a choice as schools with more developed eng schools.

[slt2021 → tomtheelder]

> Young people are overwhelmingly pro affirmative action

False, because Students for Fair Admissions (the org who sued Harvard for racial discrimination) - are young people and they have millions of supporters around the world

[race_condition → slt2021]

Local valedictorian of this year's class, in suburban DFW, is going to Harvard to be an engineer. She's Hispanic for what that's worth and was sold on trying to change Harvard's engineering reputation.