… in the past. “Now, though, everyone must make it on merit. That is the American way.” In response, I suggested to him that while he seemed quite able, as able as the students I had taught at Harvard and met at Yale and Columbia Law Schools, when he graduated from Pace he would have a hard time competing at large corporate law firms, whose hiring partners prefer to hire lawyers whose parents had been able to send them to Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. “What,” I asked him, “do you have to say about that?” He paused, eyes glazed. Obviously, he was so focused on what he called “reverse discrimination” tha…
