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Don't know if I'm just jaded -- but I'm seriously not bothered by people making large donations to a university to have their kid admitted. It's a transaction w
by 60secz 6y ago
Don't know if I'm just jaded -- but I'm seriously not bothered by people making large donations to a university to have their kid admitted. It's a transaction which benefits the university and the student. Granted -- it should be above board and there should be formal policies. Not justifying the specific actions in this case just curious at the outrage.
- chaostheory 6y agoYeah, if one family donates millions to have their child admitted, those millions of dollars can help subsidize the university's costs for other students or it could be used for special projects like libraries. This is probably why many schools have buildings named after people who usually tend to be donors.
- syspec 6y agoThe problem is that if we normalize it, then they will get addicted to the money and ONLY let in people who's parents can make a large donation. Finally what will be considered a large donation, will go up rapidly.
- curiousllama 6y agoGood point - before long, tuition will be something ridiculous like $50k a year! :)
- t-writescode 6y agoI argue that this isn't going to go away 100%, so I propose we make a more honest rule. "No more than 1% of students" or "No more than 10% of students" can get in this way and the rest have to be through normal means.
- goodluckchuck 6y agoIt can be fraud against other students. Applicants are told that admissions decisions are based on qualifications. Students pay tens of thousands of dollars for that qualification. They pay $50-100 to apply. Then it turns out that the qualification isn’t real... That admission can simply be purchased. If admissions can be purchased, the the degrees can likely be purchased too. Fraud is a crime.
- brightball 6y agoI feel like this is being over thought. Making a donation to a university is certainly a direct way to apply money to the process, but we already see that through additional factors. You’ve got private K-12 schools that give many people a leg up, but even the best public schools have a similar effect through zoning. You want to get your child into a better public school, you move to a home that’s zoned for it. The homes zoned for the best schools? Well they are more expensive. That’s not even factoring in tutors, SAT prep or even just well educated parents who give their children additional support at home. I tend to agree with the idea that it’s happening no matter what. It’s just a matter of whether we choose to acknowledge it and let it benefit others.
- goodluckchuck 6y agoYou’re literally saying that studying and becoming more qualified is cheating.
- brightball 6y agoI’m saying that financial advantages make those qualifications much easier to obtain.
- gowld 6y agoIt would be better to just directly tax the rich to pay to educate the poor.
- 60secz 6y agoIt would be interesting to see how elite private schools would be effected if all public universities were free.