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ArticleHop: Ivy League Not Actually All That, Yale Prof Finds

By Bwog Staff on Jul 26, 2008 26 Comments

So this article has been making the rounds for about a month, but even un-breaking news is sometimes worth a read. Writing in the American Scholar, William Deresiewicz argues that this “elite” education we’re getting actually kind of sucks. Roughly, he posits: the Ivies a) make it impossible for you to talk to people who […]

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