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How many Yale students are there because of donations or connections. Nepotism is often the source of preferential treatment.
by dukeofdoom 4y ago
How many Yale students are there because of donations or connections. Nepotism is often the source of preferential treatment.
- Ekaros 4y agoWhy not be honest and outright auction those slots for highest bidders. Pay x number of millions and we guarantee access to Yale for x number of years.
- cato_the_elder 4y agoThe same reason they don't do it the "honest" way for affirmative action. It would significantly decrease the prestige and legitimacy of degrees awarded to people who fill those slots.
- ffggvv 4y agoget rid of both
- antonymy 4y agoIf they ended the legacy system they could kiss all donations from millionaire and billionaire alumni goodbye. In the first place, this whole "racial diversity" thing is a diversion in order to maintain their legacy system. Can't accuse them of being elitist and exclusionary if they regularly admit a quota of non-legacy applicants deliberately selected for racial diversity.
- throwaway_4ever 4y agoThus it's the downfall of their academic strength, weakening the collective intellect of their student body in two different ways (50% even?). Now, for new fields like Computer Science, 5 out of the 10 top US Comp-Sci universities are public and 8 out of 10 non-Ivy. It's even worse when you account for the fact that Ivy's like Columbia are egregious offenders of attempting to fraudulently boost their US News rankings and are soon going to be absent consequently. https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch...
- cato_the_elder 4y agoAdmission because of donations isn't really as bad as affirmative action. Each possibly undeserving rich kid admitted probably funds many deserving but poor ones.