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“Excellent Sheep”: What’s Become Of Students at Elite Colleges Today

ISSUES Posted: August 20, 2014 7:56 pm

William Deresiewicz: “They’re ‘excellent’ because they have fulfilled all the requirements for getting into an elite college, but it’s very narrow excellence. These are kids who will perform to the specifications you define, and they will do that without particularly thinking about why they’re doing it. They just know that they will jump the next hoop.”

ISSUES Published: 08.19.14

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 08.19.14

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