Ivy-League Admissions and Making Meritocracy

Insights from 'Making Meritocracy: Lessons from India and China’

The danger of meritocracy is that it can create a sense of entitlement – that we deserve something in return for our merit. We often think we are privileged because we work really hard. While mapping our effort to the outcome, we often think that we succeed solely because of our own efforts. But clearly, we're mostly privileged because our parents were …