Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by siva7 1206 days ago
Standards can also act as a gatekeeper, discriminating against the underprivileged. So i'm glad that everyone gets the same chance, if rich or poor.
2 comments

> So i'm glad that everyone gets the same chance, if rich or poor.

They don't, though?

> The median family income of a student from Harvard is $168,800, and 67% come from the top 20 percent. About 1.8% of students at Harvard came from a poor family but became a rich adult.

From a NYTimes analysis [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...

I suppose this is trolling, but if it's not everybody doesn't really "get a change", you are just turning an english major into a different thing while keeping the name and trying to keep the prestige, though that won't last for long.