between the uber-rich and everyone else in the hyper-competitive college admissions game.
“This is an amazing pulling back of the curtain on what we always suspected was happening,” Paterno said of the federal indictments. “But we thought they were isolated incidents ... and didn’t realize it was so widespread.” UCLA, the most popular university in the nation, now attracts more than 110,000 applications for about 6,000 freshman seats.
The Westwood campus subsequently prohibited influencing admissions with donations. And UC has eliminated preferential consideration for the children of alumni, a practice known as “legacy admissions” that tends to favor wealthier families.The system also has moved toward a broader review of applicants to consider not only test scores and high school grades but also extracurricular activities, leadership and persistence over challenging circumstances, to widen access to a great swath of students.
TeresaWatanabe khouriandrew Question: what happens to the students who got admitted through these channels and may be even graduated? Will their certificates be considered valid? Are they liable?
TeresaWatanabe khouriandrew How embarrassing for the kids who look like dumb $hits because they have to have their parents pay for a school to take them
TeresaWatanabe khouriandrew I’m amazed at how many publications are playing surprised on this. The rich have been buying their children’s admissions FOR DECADES! It just never had a shiny enough wrapper until now.
TeresaWatanabe khouriandrew Can we please see Tiffany's LSAT score & Penn grades? How about Ivanka's admission application to Penn. Dumb & dumber's to Penn/G'Town. We already know Jared bought his way into Harvard & likely NYU. What is the difference b/w flat out buying your way in & this? Still bribery.
TeresaWatanabe khouriandrew My daughter has literally devoted her entire life to her chosen sport. Gave up so much of a normal life to finally earn her Athletic Commitment to a D1 school. Now apparently rich people can just buy them for their little brats. This makes me so angry.
TeresaWatanabe khouriandrew Libs are silent when unqualified protected classes are admitted to these schools.
TeresaWatanabe khouriandrew Hmm? 🤔How did P.Diddy's son get into UCLA on the football team, when the coach said he was too small to play professionally?
TeresaWatanabe khouriandrew well yeah, I’m cynical but definitely wasn’t expecting the fake athlete thing