Hyper competitive clubs at hyper competitive universities
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/yale-college-undergrad-clubs-competitive/675219/
A Yale student writing about how competitive the student clubs are at Yale. Even the volunteer and supposedly affiliation based clubs involved elaborate application processes and have low acceptance rates.A poignant paragraph from the article:
Yale is a place where everyone is a winner. Less than 5 percent of people who apply are offered a spot. You might think that this selectivity would make students feel confident and secure—if we had to beat out 95 percent of our peers to get in, we must be really special. But the opposite seems to be true: Students, fueled by insecurity, feel the need to over-justify their worthiness. And so they impose endless hierarchies on one another.
