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Crystal Springs made no difference. “I hated it there too,” said Sam. “The whole way through. I didn’t like classes. I didn’t like my schoolmates. I was bored.” The student body was a who’s who of Silicon Valley children. (Steve Jobs’s son, Reed, was in Sam’s class.) By most standards it was a nerdy school. A jock was a person who ran track. To Sam

In 2020, Avital Balwit had won a Rhodes Scholarship and turned it down, first to run Carrick Flynn’s congressional campaign and then to give away FTX’s money. Leopold Aschenbrenner, who had entered Columbia University at the age of fifteen and graduated four years later as class valedictorian, had just declined a spot at Yale Law School to work for

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Bhupendra might not have been worried, but in 1967, the fact that his competition was all Chinese and Indian was a matter of great concern in the world beyond Iowa City. What had once been a trickle of Third World students into U.S. schools was becoming a tidal wave. That academic year, China and India accounted for about 11 percent, each, of the t

In a recent book, he argues that many of the students currently enrolled are simply not capable of performing college-level work.