JULY 7, 2020|EDUCATION & LEARNING
Study on Harvard Finds 43% of Students Are Legacy, Athletes or Related to Donors
On the surface, this story about 43% of students at Harvard relying on some sort of privilege to get in seems like it should make us angry. It's another example of the class divide that separates rich from poor!
Yet it also happens to be the perfect example of a type of story that I have been covering in a feature from my weekly insights show that I call the “Non-Obvious Double Take - Stories That Should Make You Think Twice.”
In this case, what I wonder is what about the other 57%. Are they coming from underprivileged homes? Are they more ethnically diverse? Or not? The problem is, when you read only the headline of a story like this, it's easy to just feel outrage. To have more context, you need to read further ... and even more importantly, you need to read the same story from another perspective.
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This is a blog about non-obvious ideas. Originally launched on the Typepad platform in 2005 as the Influential Marketing blog, the stories at first focused mainly on digital marketing while Rohit worked at Ogilvy Advertising. In 2015 Rohit officially rebranded to the Non-Obvious Insights Blog and published his WSJ bestseller Non-Obvious. For the past twenty one years, this blog has coined new terms, introduced future marketing practices and inspired the next generation of non-obvious thinkers and marketers.
