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...book, “Outliers: The Story of Success,” Gladwell tries to dispel the myth that men make their own destinies, instead advancing the thesis that “outliers”—the so-called “best and the brightest??—are the result of the context in which their success took place. Outliers can’t be understood as isolated prodigies because success is not an individual phenomenon; successful people, Gladwell argues, never rise from nothing. This is hardly an uncontroversial claim in a culture that...
...grades by the fall of 2009, adopting an “honors pass/pass/low pass/fail” grading system like those already in place at Stanford and Yale. The change no doubt comes as a relief for incoming 1Ls daunted by the prospect of competition with some of the brightest??and most cutthroat—students in the nation. But beyond merely assuaging freshman fears, the switch to pass/fail promotes the pedagogy and overall mission of the Law School as well. In any academic setting, letter grades have the power to create perverse incentives. Students are discouraged from...
These students represent Harvard’s best and brightest??juniors and seniors are invited to apply only if their cumulative grade point average is one of the highest in their field of study...
Theda Skocpol, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), emphasized Harvard’s commitment to recruiting the “best and the brightest?? from all over the world...
...premises of a modern education is that in throwing together a diverse group of the “best and brightest?? from around the world, we produce the best university possible. With much the same intent, the New York Yankees over the past decade have tried to lure the best and brightest baseball players from the baseball-playing world. Both institutions draw their superstars through an incomparable pile of riches and an even bigger name. And both ensure that many of those aspirants end up with a new sense of humility: Even with the finest facilities and greatest...