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mbmba t1_iwlxspw wrote

Yale can truly say it’s progressive when it eliminates legacy admissions and pay-to-play admissions for kids of rich donors.

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thatoneguy889 t1_iwm2o8l wrote

There's a friend of a family friend of mine that's one of those disgustingly wealthy people you've never heard of. His son applied to a very prominent and prestigious university, but didn't get in because he fucked around in high school and his grades sucked. The guy basically donated a new wing to the university's library or something like that and a few weeks later the son got a letter in the mail saying his admission was reconsidered and he got in.

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KingfisherDays t1_iwmdynd wrote

Ever heard of the z list? That's what happens when you're the kid of a rich donor who can't get into Harvard normally. They admit you and make you defer a year in between. So if you seen the child of a rich or influential person going to Harvard after a gap year, it's possibly because of that cough Malia Obama cough

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Redpandaling t1_iwmrkpd wrote

Eh, rich people are also better situated to take a gap year in general. Gap years are like entrepreneurship - a thing you can do when you're rich because you're not worried about having enough money for your basic living needs.

For your specific example, I'm not aware of any evidence suggesting Malia wasn't a good student / made bad decisions. Obviously giant leg up from being a first daughter. Given that she would have been going to college in 2016, taking a gap year seems like a smart idea for her just to let the furor die down a bit.

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Recent_Record t1_iwuc77b wrote

It probably helped that both Barack and Michelle went to Harvard too.

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wheniswhy t1_iwngx08 wrote

I went to a prestigious Ivy League university. One summer, I took an internship working with a bunch of Harvard kids in NYC. I remember thinking it was kind of odd that they were all Harvard kids except for me, but it was a good opportunity with a good company and great potential networking, so didn’t think too much of it.

About a week in, I found out that the kid who was really running the operation was the son of the guy who owned the company. Who owned the floor. Who owned the building. And he had absolutely no clue what he was doing.

We had a saying at my school: “The hardest part about Harvard is getting in.”

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themoneybadger t1_iwmpj54 wrote

This isn't news to anybody. Legacy admissions are a way to secure easy funding.

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Marthaver1 t1_iwnaine wrote

Legacy admission and pay to play admissions is broad day life corruption, plain and simple.

Imagine being a poor student, working your ass off to get excellent grades, entrance exams scores (another corrupt shit btw), active in 5+ extracurricular activities per semester, and just to be rejected over little Baron with mediocre grades because daddy is an alumni and or is a generous donor of that school. These schools have no shame. Ethics my ass. With what moral grounds can they even enforce plagiarism when they are doing shit this?

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Ok-Tap-4824 t1_iwotd8k wrote

>Legacy admission and pay to play admissions is broad day life corruption

Pretty sure you're just describing capitalism.

No one is surprised when the Ferrari dealership doesn't care about your grades. They'll take a check, thanks.

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_Happy_Sisyphus_ t1_iwoyb8l wrote

But universities claim to be not for profits

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Ok-Tap-4824 t1_iwoyjv2 wrote

Yeah, and they don't make any profit. They reinvest all that money back into the university.

That doesn't mean they don't care about money.

If you want to test this, here's a nifty experiment -- go swing by a non-profit hospital, whichever is closest to you, and ask them to give you all their money. See what they say.

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Aazadan t1_iwnlp65 wrote

How about they just get rid of their water polo team? Maybe give the space to an international airport.

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