Is Wal-Mart Harder Than Harvard?

Bloomberg reports:

The retailer also is clearly a highly desirable place to work, offering its employees career advancement, health insurance and personal satisfaction. New York University economist Jason Furman notes that a recent store opening in Glendale, Arizona, received 8,000 applicants for 525 jobs. The number of applications suggests, Furman writes, that ``A Harvard applicant has a higher chance of being accepted than a person applying for a job at that Wal-Mart.''

Read the whole piece.It takes on all the anti-Wal-Mart arguments.