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It's extremely difficult to gain admittance to a place like Stanford if your parents are not supportive of your educational ambitions. This is both because yo
by downandout 12y ago
It's extremely difficult to gain admittance to a place like Stanford if your parents are not supportive of your educational ambitions. This is both because your academic results earlier in life (upon which admittance would be based) will tend to reflect an unsupportive family, and a place like Stanford wants students with supportive families. That's why parental support matters.
- sporkenfang 12y agoSupportive of one's educational ambitions ~= having the money to pay for one's educational ambitions to be realized.
- harryh 12y agoSure, which is why Stanford has programs like this one. But for parents that do have the money it makes sense to expect them to spend some of it.
- donatj 12y agoBecause kids with bad parents don't deserve good educations. Sigh.
- downandout 12y agoOf course they do, but most won't get it. It's one of life's many crappy realities. There's a line from a song..."Where it ends...usually depends on where you start". There are of course exceptions, but this generally holds true.
- Futurebot 12y agoCurently an unfortunate reality: https://medium.com/@opirmusic/why-software-developers-should-still-choose-to-go-to-university-if-someone-else-is-paying-45091d22acc1 https://medium.com/@opirmusic/why-software-developers-should...
- marincounty 12y agoOr, maybe Stanford counts on parential guilt? They have quite a big savings account. (Stanford’s $21.4 billion endowment (as of Aug. 31, 2014), and grateful donors give the school close to a billion dollars a year. I don't know how many full scholarships Stanford gives away per year, but I hope it's a lot? (http://facts.stanford.edu/administration/finances http://facts.stanford.edu/administration/finances)