Opinion: Elite universities will lose their eliteness if they’re not careful
Clockwise from top left, campuses of Georgetown University, Stanford University, Yale University and University of California at Los Angeles. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 14 at 10:30 AM Elite universities are going to face a firestorm of criticism in the wake of the college admissions scandal if they don’t police themselves — and do it fast.
Forgetting about the criminal class for a moment, how can schools in which more students come from the top 1 percent than from the bottom 60 percent claim to be a meritocracy? Unless you think rich is synonymous with smart , then it’s obvious that the system is tilted so far in favor or wealth and privilege it’s about to fall over. The risk is that people start to wise up and come around to the idea that the elite private universities are where one goes to purchase the facade of merit.
Maybe it is the ability to charge outrageous prices or maybe it’s the frenzy to get a high listing on the U.S. News college rankings, but the entire process of admissions has become warped. Exclusivity has become a goal unto itself. Exclusivity begets panic begets big donations so Junior can get in — or even criminal conduct.
If they were really a meritocracy, they’d stop churning numbers and turn recruiters into talent scouts searching for the best and the brightest in those high schools where college attendance is not a foregone conclusion. Instead of big numbers, they should be figuring out where in non-privileged America they can source students. They should be in the business of spreading opportunity and democratizing educational opportunities, not keeping it an exclusive province of the rich and famous.
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