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re: Why do white men even go to schools like Harvard anymore?
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:10 am to mmmmmbeeer
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:10 am to mmmmmbeeer
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What an odd take. Why do you suddenly post some shite about Harvard? Step away from social media, dude. It's making you dumber (that goes for anyone with any political slant using Twitter to get angry every day).
No need to get emotional.
When on social media expect, well, social media.
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Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:10 am to SlowFlowPro
The OT: where being a plumber is better than going to Harvard. Never change lads
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:11 am to GumboPot
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There are a lot of people however that believe that E=mc^2 written on the chalkboard by a Harvard professor carries more weight than a professor at Auburn.
I mean they have better professors than your typical university, but the education portion is a very small % of the calculation. These elite schools put most of those lectures online for free, and have for 10+ years.
The reputation/prestige, student body/competition, and networking is the real value.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:11 am to EZE Tiger Fan
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Of course he isn't smart enough to realize he made a stupid point.
If X represents 17% of a large dataset, but represents 32% of a subset of that data, X is overrepresented in the chosen subset of data. Math is hard.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:12 am to mmmmmbeeer
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Step away from social media, dude. It's making you dumber (that goes for anyone with any political slant using Twitter to get angry every day).
I’d be more concerned about their media consumption overall than merely being on social media.
This post was edited on 5/14/25 at 8:13 am
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:13 am to SlowFlowPro
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How does it compare to other universities, is the question.
With the increase in female population share on campuses, You'd expect this trend, I reckon. I don't think it's a Harvard issue exclusively.
That was going to be my next question after I got an answer on if the data was wrong.
It isn't some secret the population of college students has changed drastically.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:15 am to RoscoeSanCarlos
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frick ALL the Ivy League schools. I think big state schools are better… better experience, better students (not talking about book smart here), better value, etc. The Future Value of a Dollar equation or Lagrangian equation works just the same at Auburn as it does at Harvard.
It’s actually insane how stupid some of you are
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:15 am to SlowFlowPro
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The reputation/prestige, student body/competition, and networking is the real value.
I don't disagree.
That's why I said in my earlier post, the only special thing about Harvard is established networking.
But if Harvard starts getting a reputation as a breeding ground for future blue haired angry white women their reputation will be harmed and those embellishment connections will be reestablished to the schools where the white dudes go.
This post was edited on 5/14/25 at 8:17 am
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:15 am to GumboPot
Why do men go to college at all? You make more money as a blue collar
Yalls hands too soft to turn a wrench?
Yalls hands too soft to turn a wrench?
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:16 am to mmmmmbeeer
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17% of the American population are white men. Harvard's faculty is 32% white men.
17%? Isn't it closer to 30%?
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:16 am to GumboPot
Most people don’t go to schools like Harvard so they can get a job. They go to these schools so they don’t have to get a job.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:17 am to BabyTac
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They go to these schools so they don’t have to get a job.
Oh, so "working" at an NGO.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:22 am to EZE Tiger Fan
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The dude is an admitted pedophile.
What now?
I like you, E, but you seem just as ate up with political bullshite as the people you rail on constantly on here.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:24 am to facher08
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I'd like to see controls for both college graduation rates and the the population entering academia over this scope for both males and females. Females have been outpacing males going to college for a while now. Harvard's issues with social justice are well documented, but this data doesn't prove what the poster wants it to by itself.
Exactly. It's just like the dude who threw out the "17% of the country is white males" thing. That is almost completely irrelevant to the discussion in this thread. It's nowhere near apples to apples.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:24 am to 1BamaRTR
Yeah, it's 32%.
People just make up shite on here.
As to the OP, the Ivy League is an embarrassing joke, especially Harvard.
Claudine Gay is all you need to know.
People just make up shite on here.
As to the OP, the Ivy League is an embarrassing joke, especially Harvard.
Claudine Gay is all you need to know.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:26 am to GumboPot
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The question is why should white men even go to schools like Harvard anymore when the people around you at those schools generally hate you?
What don’t you understand? It’s not about the education, it’s about the contacts.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:28 am to GumboPot
The data presented is interesting, but it alone does not support the conclusion of the x/tweet. In fact, it looks like the single largest population group among the faculty are white men. If this person wants to criticize Ivy League schools (and there are reasons to do so) they are presenting a weak argument.
As far as reasons to go to such schools, there are many. I will give one.
Elite schools produce an outsized percentage of the people who will serve in the upper echelons of the US government. All but one of the current Supreme Court justices hold degrees from an Ivy League school. A significant percentage of the members of congress in both houses are Ivy League or educated at other elite schools (UVA, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UChicago, etc…). Trump’s administration, like all presidential administrations anymore, is populated with Ivy Leaguers (Hesgeth, Stefanik, Bessent, RFKjr, Vance). Trump is another example in a long list post World War 2 of presidents with an Ivy League degree (Wharton-Penn). Bottom-lime, if you want to run the country, or network with those who will, then going to one of these schools gives you an inside track. It’s not just what you know, it’s who you know.
As far as reasons to go to such schools, there are many. I will give one.
Elite schools produce an outsized percentage of the people who will serve in the upper echelons of the US government. All but one of the current Supreme Court justices hold degrees from an Ivy League school. A significant percentage of the members of congress in both houses are Ivy League or educated at other elite schools (UVA, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UChicago, etc…). Trump’s administration, like all presidential administrations anymore, is populated with Ivy Leaguers (Hesgeth, Stefanik, Bessent, RFKjr, Vance). Trump is another example in a long list post World War 2 of presidents with an Ivy League degree (Wharton-Penn). Bottom-lime, if you want to run the country, or network with those who will, then going to one of these schools gives you an inside track. It’s not just what you know, it’s who you know.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:30 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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The OT: where being a plumber is better than going to Harvard. Never change lads
100%
This post was edited on 5/14/25 at 8:31 am
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:30 am to N2cars
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People just make up shite on here.
68% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:33 am to CocomoLSU
82.4% of the people believe 'em whether they're accurate statistics or not!
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