Are universities the right places for young people today?

Teenager William Hao walked onto twelve of the world's most powerful campuses — Harvard, MIT, Brown, Yale, NYU, Columbia, Princeton, UPenn, Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, and UCL — and asked students, professors, and staff a question almost nobody wants answered out loud: are universities still the right places for young people today?

What came back was not polite consensus. It was raw, divided, and — in places — devastating. The people inside the system did not all defend it. Some hesitated. Some laughed. Some said what you are not supposed to say on the quad.