Reading this Twitter thread led me to this article, which, which says this: "If you were reinventing the Ivy League as a signaling-focused product, your stripped-down version might look like this: you invite a small cohort of talented people to move to a city for about three months, you host some social events so they get to know each other, you have them work on projects and you advise them on those, and afterwards you introduce them to a bunch of savvy rich people. In other words, you'd invent Y Combinator." The Twitter thread is just misguided. But the article taps into what is really the value proposition for Ivy League universities, and we should be asking how to transfer this value to everyone, not just the sons and daughters of the well-connected.
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