Speaking about the ultra-competitiveness of admissions to elite universities and the corresponding over-involved parental behavior such competition encourages.
Of course, the crisis that this tournament system has created among elites is nothing compared with the crisis among poor kids. Unlike wealthy kids, poor kids are given lots of chances to fail. What they're not given are chances to recover. As the writer John Scalzi once noted, "Being poor is having to live with choices you didn't know you made when you were fourteen years old."
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