Saturday, April 30, 2011

Don't go to Harvard; go to prison!

The Wall Street Journal online has a hilarious op-ed about the virtues of enrolling in California's prison-guard academy rather than going to Harvard: you get paid for going, your starting salary after graduation is likely to be higher, and no private enterprise can match California's pension plan. I particularly liked the final paragraph:
The application process may seem like a piece of cake compared to Harvard's, but the correctional officer academy is actually more selective than Harvard. Over 120,000 people apply every year, according to the state Legislative Analyst's Office, but the academy only enrolls about 900. That's an acceptance rate of less than 1%. Harvard's is 6.2%. The job also has a better retention rate than Harvard. Only 1.7% dropped out of the service last year, compared to 2% who left Harvard.
Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

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