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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Among the Singer clients, most used the fake athlete approach and didn't fake their SATs.

How do we shut down that preference, which literally makes no sense in higher education? Let the best students compete in sports once admitted, but why do coaches have ANY role in the admissions process.  [/quote]

EXACTLY![/quote]

You're all very naive. The colleges KNOW it's happening. They WANT/NEED the rich going there or Harvard, for example, isn't Harvard. Harvard is just like a well-financed tech school if you took out all the rich kids. And all you strivers who dream about your kid marrying an 'elite' wouldn't want to go there, either.[/quote]

They would argue that allowing in a 2.5 million Jared Kushner means that 10 other kids get scholarships, is my guess.[/quote]

But you dilute the brand by letting in someone everyone knows is mediocre but rich.[/quote]

No you protect the brand with elite /rich dilute the brand with striver/regular kids
harvard Alum[/quote]

As sick and pathetic as this post sounds... this is what people who are test preping and taking 15 APs don't understand.[/quote]

The H brand changes overtime slowly on the edges.  Groups that feel unfairly treated in admissions are often those as considered strivers or socially less desirable by traditional H types or old white men.  Just because you value something and think its great does not mean others will. ...[/quote]

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