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Yes, like 80 years ago. Nobody would accuse Ivy League schools of being bastions of fairness. We all know nepotism & pay-for-play is a core part of their busin
by pembrook 4y ago
Yes, like 80 years ago.
Nobody would accuse Ivy League schools of being bastions of fairness. We all know nepotism & pay-for-play is a core part of their business model.
But I'm not sure you could get away with that today. You'd have to make a sizable 'donation' instead.
- jackmott 4y agoAnd now we still live under the thumb of billionaires made by those acts 80 years ago, and he insults the youth for complaining about it to.
- csa 4y ago> But I'm not sure you could get away with that today. As long as an applicant meets the minimum/lower-end standards for admissions, Ivy League professors in grad schools (law, mba, and PhD-track… not sure about medicine)can and do make by-name requests for admissions that are best not ignored.
- darth_avocado 4y agoYou pretty much get away with it even today.
- yieldcrv 4y agoand they shouldn't be expected to be fair Ivy League schools survived for 300 years before a couple decades of the general public thinking that they need Ivy League, due to the corporate sector’s inability to screen a larger working population Ivy League schools will survive this meme too. Academia as a whole has never adjusted to the underclass’ need to learn for the purpose of making money, they teach irrelevant theory for the sole pursuit of knowledge to this very day They are for the wealthy to connect with each other and build rapport with each other The rest of us are just … around