“The college essay isdead” in The Atlantic by Stephen Marche (2022)
The College Essay Is Dead: Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia<br /> by Stephen Marche<br /> on 2022-12-06
“The college essay isdead” in The Atlantic by Stephen Marche (2022)
The College Essay Is Dead: Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia<br /> by Stephen Marche<br /> on 2022-12-06
G.I. Bill, which was theoretically open to everyone, including to women, but that very few Black people could take advantage of because most colleges wouldn't admit them.
This is what we can think of as the aspirational critique of meritocracy.
Exploring the idea of aspirational critique of meritocracy is worthwhile.
The fact that everyone gets up in arms in a case like the college admissions scandal of 2019, but not at other forms is intriguing.
Why not just run the lottery?
Barry Schwartz proposed this idea in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2005: http://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-psychology/11/