Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions process under wraps
If the emperor were ever naked, this would be it.<p>Contrast this &quot;trade secret&quot; to a chat with an Oxford don, and you&#x27;ll find the don is quite straightforward in admitting they are fallible. Some admits are duds, and some are hits. Decisions are made based on a small amount of information, but only the dons decide what happens. They try hard to let in disadvantaged kids, but it&#x27;s a crap shoot deciding who has potential and who doesn&#x27;t. They rarely care about anything other than academics. (I&#x27;m not sure how they recruit the rowers.)<p>It&#x27;s just laughable that an admissions process is a trade secret, and unless there&#x27;s a compelling explanation given, I would assume they claim this because they are being sued by Asians about bias, and giving places to legacies, which is just as bad for a place that sells itself on excellence.