A recent piece in the Washington Post by a UPenn prof asserts that the admissions policies of the ivy league schools misguidedly favor extroverted kids:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/one-group-that-definitely-faces-prejudice-in-college-admissions/2018/08/05/906095e0-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?utm_term=.f88036ee10b4
That preference for the outgoing, the gregarious and the talkative is at the heart of the case against Harvard by Asian Americans, but the author wants to make a larger point - that there's "zero evidence" for the proposition that leadership and ability are linked to extroversion. Some of the best leaders - he cites Charles Schwab and Bill Gates - are introverts, who "govern by example rather than charisma, by listening rather than talking."
It was interesting to hear that case made. In an earlier era these extroverted types - sometimes stigmatized as "organization men" or the "other-directed" - were not so universally admired. There's room for all types, of course, and there is more fluidity among types than is commonly recognized. Still, I trust that at the U of C the introverted still hold the place of honor.
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