Unfortunately, I don’t think this is a new state of affairs in academia, especially for elite institutions like Yale, etc. It’s always been about letting the “right” people in and keeping the “wrong” people out… they just have to be more subtle about it now and include enough of the “wrong” people to look good to donors. The few people who get in through actual hard work and merit (like yourself, I’m sure) and fewer and farther between. It sucks, because working class people and people of color of all classes and any gender or sexual orientation or identity could transform how our society works if they had larger representation in elite institutions that would get them more elite jobs…
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