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The 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

The 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 ago
Schools also have an incentive to keep acceptance rate as low as possible as it’s an (extremely bullshit) signal of value.
- throwaway287391 7y ago
  Sure, 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.
  - drb91 7y ago
    Yea but why would they? Their prestige is grounded in the illusion of elite meritocracy.
    - kortilla 7y ago
      Because they don’t want the illusion of meritocracy to be tarnished. It’s better to say 10k students were accepted on merit and an addition 3 building donation students.