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Yes. It doesn't seem that universities "indoctrinating" students is accurate. Which also makes sense based on personal experience. Think back to high school? Whose opinion did you care about? Your teachers? Or your fellow students?

So how did wokeness happen? It seems to be a combination of three groups: admissions committee's, cultural influencers in elite institutions like the media, and wannabee elites among high school students.

The elites in the media send signals about what values (read: liberal values) are high-status. Admission committees then select students based on how well they seem to conform to those high-status values. Status-striving high school students then subconsciously modify their political beliefs, extracurriculars, and essays to reflect liberal values. Admission committee's then preferentially select the most liberal students who apply, who then become the new elite. Rinse and repeat.

At no point in the process is there anything resembling indoctrination from faculty to the students.

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