I have to slap myself to believe I’m reading this:
Yet while legacy universities dominate headlines, a transformation is taking place elsewhere, and it deserves more attention. Students are voting with their feet, abandoning the “colds and scolds” of the Northeast for more favorable climates—both intellectual and meteorological.
This shift has extended to both public and private schools. Today, it’s harder to get into the University of Florida as an out-of-state applicant than it was to get into most Ivy League schools 30 years ago, and institutions like Vanderbilt and Rice show that private universities need not be out of touch.
As someone who passed up the Ivies more than a half century ago for this, it is vindication that is better late than never. For those who still think this is crazy, I’d ask this: the Ivy Leaguers have had the run of our country’s leadership during my lifetime, so how did we get into the mess we’re in? And why are we surprised at the antisemitism we see when the admissions processes these institutions have were originally altered to keep too many Jews from coming in?
Our country would be better off if we had “diploma diversity” in our upper reaches, and if we can survive the damage we’ve allowed to be inflicted on ourselves, we just might get it.
Positive Infinity 
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