There truly is one for the well connected $$$$ - kid with so so academics in DC class , non legacy but well connected father has just been offered a Harvard spot w gap year. The rich and connected keeps moving forward. |
How do you think those schools keep the connections going and growing? They can't do that by admitting all the top students who will just feed off the old connections. |
How do you think they can offer admissions to anyone regardless of ability to pay? This is how they do it. |
We know 2 kids admitted on the Z list. Both legacies. |
Of course there is one, duh.
You just keep chugging along. |
I don't know how people have enough energy to worry about the practices of a private institution serving .01% of the population, with hundreds of substitutes for the service they provide. Better to direct your energy towards tax payer funded public institutions that pay their football coach 10 times a university president's salary in support of an entertainment product. Worrying about the corner cases is such a bore. |
The sports programs that pay huge salaries to coaches are almost always self funded. And the football and basketball revenue covers the cost of the non revenue sports. Yes, it's a weird thing the coaches are paid more than presidents, but it's not taxpayer or even tuition funded. |
Of course there is one but I don't think it pays for unconnected people like ourselves to nash our teeth about it. It's human nature to want to help out the people you know personally or use your connections to try to get ahead, etc. so it's always going to go on. You just have to focus on what you're doing and try the best you can. |
Really, that's your story? When the coach makes more than the combined value of all of the scholarships of the players you don't think there are massive economic distortions at work? You analysis is a bit simplistic. |
So everyone is okay that who you are is rewarded than what you are? What happened to merit based America? |
Not okay with it at all. Less concerned about it in the context of Harvard, which hasn't actually been that great of an undergraduate institution for about 50 years now (though it's well past time for Harvard to continue to receive the taxpayer benefits it does through its non-profit status and so forth). Very concerned about it within the context of our economy and government. But that would be another thread. |
That wasn't the point. It was responding to the point about taxpayer funded institutions. The football programs are not taxpayer funded. In many cases they also generate loyalty to the University and significant alumni giving so further reduce the need for taxpayer funding. Many of the leading publics get very little from the state (UVA under 10% for example). |
Can some one tell me what a "z" list is in this case? I know what a Z list celebrity is, but not this. Thanks. |
It's the super connected or high donor kids who may not be quite as qualified who are admitted to Harvard with the requirement that they take a gap year. That way their stats aren't included in admission stats. And I suspect Harvard hopes that some will opt to go elsewhere but the kids we know admitted on the Z plan took the gap year. |
And this is an actual, genuine thing, or just something that DCUMommies have thought up as a "possibility"? |