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Monday, October 31, 2005

Malcolm Gladwell on Ivy League admissions

Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker: Getting In: The social logic of Ivy League admissions, (via Adam Langley). To read. Apparently, from Adam's description of Gladwell's talk at Google, he argues that success isn't primarily driven by going to Harvard, but by being the type of person who'd apply to Harvard in the first place.

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