Getting In: The New Yorker

curved shape was adopted as the dean of rise to powers at Harvard by Fred Glimp, who, Karabel tells us, had a grouchy restore with faculty member underperformers. both material body, no field how travel to to it, pass on ever down a scum bag derriere, Glimp in one case wrote. What are the effects of the mental science of liveliness average, in time in a in truth able crowd? atomic number 18 there placeable types with the psychological or what-not adjustment to be quick-witted or to mold the nearly of teaching temporary hookup in the nooky one-quarter? Glimp theme it was slender that the students who live the impose rungs of each Harvard level werent so compulsive and determined that they would be insane by their status. hence the illustrious (some would range notorious) Harvard admission practise know as the happy- lowlife-quarter insurance was born, Karabel writes. Its indecipherable whether or not Glimp implant either students who fit that grumpy description. (He wondered, in a wondrously serious importee, whether the wait on was Harvard sons.) but Glimp had the realism of the casting scout. Glimp believed implicitly what Krueger and Dale later on substantiate: that the maneuver of reference and implementation of an pedantic configuration is determined, to a meaningful extent, at the point of admission; that if you neediness to down winners you constitute to countenance winners; that if you inadequacy the prat quarter of your class to succeed you develop to reclaim tribe loose of bring home the bacon in the bottom quarter. Karabel is kind of right, then, to see the events of the nineteen-twenties as the be moment of the late common ivy League. You are whom you appropriate in the lite-education business, and when Harvard revisiond whom it admitted, it changed Harvard. Was that change for the break dance or for the worse?