And into Berk with 2.7 gpa. This was in 1990. After ucla, he has one year at Morgan Stanley and had started a video rental company. His SATs weren’t impressive either The guy now has a NW of 100m+ and talks about how these universities used to give people opportunities and how going there changed his life. He also says it’s a problem they aren’t increasing their freshman seats to keep up with the growing population I think he’s right, it sucks that we’re making these schools even more exclusive and we’re closing doors for families who can’t pay for SAT tutors or kids who might have to work in high school and can’t solely focus on a high gpa.
They want to keep the class size small to conserve their exclusively, they don't care about increasing population nor applicant credentials 😂
Yeah, I guess that’s the only way they can keep raising tuition without actually investing anything into their programs
That guy started a few successful companies in a row. UCLA wasn’t why he succeeded. This isn’t leetcoding into google style of success
Before he got accepted into Cal, he only had the video delivery business. He seems to credit the network he built in Cal and UCLA a lot of credit.
College networks don’t make you successful.
skill diff
UCLA had a 50% acceptance rate at the time. So he’s right, it was much easier back then. But they can’t keep increasing the class size. They could open more campuses but they won’t be as prestigious. The solution is for employers to stop caring about college prestige. It has happened in tech to an extent.
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It’s what happens when everyone wants the same thing
I dont think it just happens though. I think using their endowment to increase freshman seats would address this issue. Harvard got 52 billion in endowment
They won’t be worth billions for very long if they don’t select for talent.