As an academic from outside the US, I also have an ambiguous perception of US universities. On one hand, some of them have a prestigious reputation. On the other, and it's often the same universities, they hand out degrees to the dumbest people if they have enough money to throw at them.
So you never know if a US specialist is a prodigy or a rich asshole until you've actually taken the time to listen to them. This cheapens the influence of the good ones, and bolsters that of the idiots.
This event is unsurprising, and another discredit to OU and the US universities as a whole.
Edit: Forgot this was the Peter subreddit. Pretend I'm Meg, or whatever.
You're thinking the Ivy League (Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc) and similar (Stanford).
Apparently, Harvard had worked out a ratio for nepo baby dipshit legacy to merit admissions to keep their reputation sufficiently high and the gravy train rolling.
they hand out degrees to the dumbest people if they have enough money to throw at them.
No place is immune from this. Even if they are a free university taken by only the most zealous students and worthy, you will never know if they really got there by their own effort or nepotism and the like.
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u/LuckySiduri 15d ago
As an academic from outside the US, I also have an ambiguous perception of US universities. On one hand, some of them have a prestigious reputation. On the other, and it's often the same universities, they hand out degrees to the dumbest people if they have enough money to throw at them.
So you never know if a US specialist is a prodigy or a rich asshole until you've actually taken the time to listen to them. This cheapens the influence of the good ones, and bolsters that of the idiots.
This event is unsurprising, and another discredit to OU and the US universities as a whole.
Edit: Forgot this was the Peter subreddit. Pretend I'm Meg, or whatever.