Since high school students are a product of an assembly line headed in your direction, could you direct them towards behaviors our whole world needs? Please?
Require applicants to know how to grow a green pepper or change a bike tire and you would improve curriculum around the world for the better. Tell everyone you will give preference to kids who ride public transportation and you will strike a blow against global warming.
Because if you really want to impact the world, that's all you need to do.
Brand recognition that makes even Google and Hollywood jealous is no small accomplishment. Good for you and a big congrats.
But far beyond the thousands of kids who want to come to Cambridge are the millions who will never apply but who yet attend schools that mold themselves to serve your admissions process.
So could you please leverage that unprecedented place in the system to make sure more people practice the activities that make today better and might make tomorrow possible? Force those tiger moms picking up their kids in SUVs to say: “Sorry, dear, Harvard expects you to be biking home instead.”
Let's see what that does for truth and light.