Alex Bronzini-Vender, a sophomore at Harvard, writes at the NYT that he and other applicants basically know how to game the college-admissions process by telling school officials what they want to hear, such as answering an essay question in a way that shows desired civility. But civility needs to be nurtured in classrooms, not screened for during an admissions process that can be manipulated, Bronzini-Vender writes. … I was saying roughly the same thing back in May. … Fyi: I particularly liked Bronzini-Vender’s call to “reinvest in disciplines like philosophy, history and political theory that teach people how to reason through disagreement.”