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​​​​Harvard’s Big Problem

​​​​Harvard’s Big Problem
The Harvard University campus is shown in Cambridge, Mass., on March 23, 2020. Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Harvard College, the undergraduate component of Harvard University, has a really big problem. It’s the kind of problem that most of the other colleges and universities in the country would love to have: The brightest, most talented, and most accomplished high schoolers in the country (not to mention students from foreign lands) are knocking themselves out trying to gain admission there.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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