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I’m Hilko, a Communications and Social Psychology student in Amsterdam
We are Jerome, Chris, and Jack, contributors of this blog
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As time passes, we will share our life, our opinions, our thoughts and our adventures with you. It might not all be strictly factual, but it’s all true
I also do web design and web hosting. Ironically, I don't have a site for that yet.
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Check Hilko's old blog for all his ramblings between 2006 and november 2009
Why Ivy League and their admission policies are the way they are, and what the effects of this have been. Once, I attended a wedding of a Harvard alum in his fifties, at which the best man spoke of his college days with the groom as if neither could have accomplished anything of greater importance in the intervening thirty years. By the end, I half expected him to take off his shirt and proudly display the large crimson “H” tattooed on his chest. What is this “Harvard” of which you Americans speak so reverently? […] The difficult part, however, was coming up with a way of keeping Jews out, because as a group they were academically superior to everyone else. […] Finally, Lowell—and his counterparts at Yale and Princeton—realized that if a definition of merit based on academic prowess was leading to the wrong kind of student, the solution was to change the definition of merit. Karabel argues that it was at this moment that the history and nature of the Ivy League took a significant turn.
