> Harvard enrollment increased 4 times since 1800s from 1.5K to 20K.
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You might mean 4 "doublings", but then the other number doesn't make sense. Or 14 times?
> It seems fair to assume doubling elite universities would not be catastrophic to elitism.
How do you double elite universities? It's more like we have an eliteness gradient (T10, T20, etc...) and the masses together decide what's "elite enough". Is WUSTL elite? Is Cornell? Is UCLA?
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You might mean 4 "doublings", but then the other number doesn't make sense. Or 14 times?
> It seems fair to assume doubling elite universities would not be catastrophic to elitism.
How do you double elite universities? It's more like we have an eliteness gradient (T10, T20, etc...) and the masses together decide what's "elite enough". Is WUSTL elite? Is Cornell? Is UCLA?