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What about the kids that didn’t get to go? The ones that the rich students replaced. That’s the real tragedy. The students don’t even know that they were out-mo
by iscrewyou 7y ago
What about the kids that didn’t get to go? The ones that the rich students replaced. That’s the real tragedy. The students don’t even know that they were out-moneid.
- bradleyjg 7y agoWhy is that a tragedy? So they didn’t go to Yale, Stanford, or USC (?!?). Presumably if they were borderline at those schools they ended up somewhere perfectly fine. I’m happy these parents are being prosecuted, but I don’t think there were any tragedies here.
- throwaway287391 7y agoThe amount to donate a building probably covers the cost to expand the student capacity of a university by several dozen students. With the donation they could easily afford to accept everyone they otherwise would have accepted and also accept the one rich kid and still come out way on top. So I'd be surprised if they did this -- though not shocked.
- drb91 7y agoSchools also have an incentive to keep acceptance rate as low as possible as it’s an (extremely bullshit) signal of value.
- throwaway287391 7y agoSure, but if we're actually talking about donating a building (maybe I took that too literally?), we're talking about 3 kids a year, tops. It would barely change the 2nd decimal place in an acceptance percentage at a lot of schools.
- beenBoutIT 7y agoThe opportunity cost is tremendous, replacing intelligent students with an idiot students robs the universities in so many different ways.