Anti-Climacus

Political theory rumor mill is one of those things where I can never tell how much is serious and how much is low-concept performance art (with a smattering of shocking-to-be-offensive). But this (page three) seems relevant to some of my blog's audience:

"Good lord, what the hell does it matter where someone went to undergrad??"

Are you serous? Its probably the single biggest determinant of how successful one's career is, in any field. You know, there is no advantage to going to Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, Pomona, or Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, not at all.

Undergrad acceptance, especially post-1960s, is the single best way to know how smart someone actually is - because you get accepted based on your SATs and your high school performance, which measure pure smarts, with least amount of quotas, partisanship, etc., as compared to grad schools.

Are we elitist? Yes, fortunately we are.