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Someone at Stanford suing because they couldn’t get into Yale honestly sounds post-satire. Stanford is pretty universally considered better...and if it isn’t i
by akhilcacharya 8y ago
Someone at Stanford suing because they couldn’t get into Yale honestly sounds post-satire.
Stanford is pretty universally considered better...and if it isn’t it’s the same. This sort of lawsuit sounds insulting to people like me who had no chance at any of the above.
- lgleason 8y agoExactly. Sounds like someone trying to go for a big payout.
- nafizh 8y agoStanford is also included in the lawsuit. And it is not about getting admission, it's about the application fee they paid without getting a fair process. Read the article.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoI’ve never applied to a school without an application fee. I wasted $240 on schools I didn’t go to and $160 on schools I didn’t get into. I know lots of folks that got fee waivers too. It comes with the territory.
- debt 8y agoI mean in light of the scandal the fee seems mostly symbolic.
- ghaff 8y agoHave they ever been to New Haven? Yeah, the whole affair is beyond yuck but even if you're mostly OK with all the other ways that college admissions isn't some perfect meritocratic process, this suit is beyond silly.
- dragonwriter 8y agoWho says they are mostly okay with the other problems? OTOH, the other problems mostly don't violate the law, so there is no legal remedy.
- ghaff 8y agoI am mostly OK with a lot of things factoring into college admissions including legacies etc.
- dragonwriter 8y agoUnless you are one of the two names plaintiffs in the lawsuit, I'm not sure how that's relevant here.
- ghaff 8y ago“They” referred to people generally, not the students filing the lawsuit.
- dragonwriter 8y agoThe implication of hypocrisy only works for people on record supporting the suit, if it works at all. Which, IMO, it doesn't anyway, since the other things you mention are generally overt parts of the admission process, and thus factually distinguishable from the undisclosed distortion at issue in the suit, in ways which can reasonably viewed as relevant to both the deceptive trade practices law on which the claims against the universities in the suit are based and the reasonable ethical principle that it is unethical to p accept payment resulting from false representations one has made regarding a service one is selling, and that such ill-gotten gains should be disgorged when discovered even if the false representation was not intentionally false.
- phlakaton 8y agoMaybe not universally: https://www.quora.com/Why-would-a-high-school-senior-choose-Yale-over-Stanford https://www.quora.com/Why-would-a-high-school-senior-choose-... It's the student that chose Stanford as a fallback from USC that has me scratching my head. Different strokes I guess. :-)
- akhilcacharya 8y agoReading these sorts of posts Quora is already a fascinating window into the elites. Truly amazing how different their bubbles are.