Skip the Ivies for a state school, elite schools past redemption and other commentary

Data geek: Skip the Ivies for a State School“If I were advising a friend’s son or daughter facing Decision Day, I’d tell them to pass on the Ivy League and go to a high-quality state school instead,” explains Nate Silver at his Silver Bulletin, with a few exceptions, such as kids “from an economically disadvantaged background” offered enough aid that this is “a golden ticket to join the elite.” But if “this student was just going to school to “find herself” — and she or her parents were footing most of the bill? Yeah, probably go with the top-flight state school — especially if she’s in a state with a very good in-state public school where the cost savings are much greater.” Beware graduating “with a mountain of debt” for “a degree from an institution that is likely to be viewed as highly polarizing.”Campus watch: Elite Schools Past RedemptionThe antisemitism on campuses like Columbia is “the result of decades of deliberate planning by a complex network of administrators, lawmakers, NGOs, and media outlets, eager to convert our universities” into “beachheads” in the war for power, thunders Liel Leibovitz at City Journal.Remember: Columbia, which boasts a 4% admissions rate, chose the “throngs” now “occupying” it and indoctrinated them into “hating Israel and the Jews.” And anyone replacing its leaders “is likely to be just as morally” bankrupt, since that’s the kind of people universities have produced.

So let Columbia, Yale and other elite schools remain what they’ve become: “finishing schools for the children of Chinese, Qatari, and other global elites.” Let “anyone interested in America’s future pursue education elsewhere.”Eye on Pa.: Suing Sheetz = Biden BumbleJust days after President Biden did “a photo op at a Sheetz in suburban Pittsburgh last week after his visit with local steelworkers,” notes the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito, his Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ...