“affiliation. I wouldn’t get into Stanford if I applied today. Not only because it would be creepy to have a forty-seven-year-old dude in your frosh dorm, but also because the vast array of people I’d be competing against would make my excellent work as vice president of my Model United Nations club seem less impressive. Elitism was so un-meritocratic in the 1960s that the University of Pennsylvania accepted Donald Trump.”
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In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book
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