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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White donating 20 million to Harvard to get in bad.

Black getting cause black is bad

Asian unless Harvard 100 percent Asian unfair.

Athletes are bad

Hispanic getting in bad

It is all nonsense. Each group only wants their own group in. No one cares if fair they just want their group to have an advantage [/quote]

how about fair clear transparent rules for everyone?[/quote]

So you want the government to step in and dictate these rules? [/quote]

Yes just like the government is providing them funding and humongous tax benefit[/quote]

This is such BS.  No the government is not "providing them funding".  The are funding research though grants awarded to individual academics who apply for it, and for which they get the results.

[i]Technology Transfer is the means by which research findings are transferred to the private sector for potential development into products and processes. Products developed from university technology transfer include the gene splicing technology that effectively created the biotechnology industry, new Internet search engines, and improved building materials.

Since the 1980 enactment of the Bayh-Dole Act, the federal government has allowed universities and other nonprofit organizations to patent and retain title to inventions created from research [b]funded by the government[/b]. Universities, in turn, must:
• offer to license the rights to innovations to industry;
• use any remaining income, minus the costs of technology management expenses, for scientific research or education;
• share any future income from the patent with the inventor; and
• provide the federal government a nonexclusive, irrevocable license to the invention.   [/i]

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED517263.pdf

As for the tax benefit, every church, charity, country club, PAC, the NRA, the ACLU, the boy scouts,  and more receive the same tax treatment.  Should we get to tell them what to do?  Because I would be up for that.

But if not then stop making that silly point.[/quote]

WTF right there in bold.

Also government tells those organizations not to discriminate.   
In fact this year, Supreme Court ordered colleges not to use race in admission. 
Government do tell them what not to do.
[/quote]

Trying to reply respectfully here... not sure if there is a language barrier making it harder for you to understand.

The federal government does not fund private colleges.  Researchers for colleges apply for grants for specific research, and if those grants are awarded, the government and private sector benefit.  They get something in return.  It's not budgeted money they get to use for whatever they wish.  Read what I quoted and the linked PDF if you care to understand.  It's like being hired for a job.

And yes, the colleges need to follow laws in admissions, as interpreted by the supreme court.  Not sure why that is even brought up.  This thread is about Z-list type admissions of legacies, donors, development admits, and the like.[/quote]

This Funded research is done at universities with grad students (and some undergrads) assisting.  That means the work is being done at a high level, with highly motivated and qualified people, and it's being done at minimal cost (Grad students make very low pay yet have every incentive to put in 120% and do their best work).   Now imagine you had to hire someone in industry to do this work---would cost a ton more to make it happen if you don't have all the PHD candidates working for free. [/quote]

But you don’t understand. It’s worth it if it means my kid has a 2% better chance of being admitted. [/quote]

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