Reply to Rest In Peace Meritocracy

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Rest In Peace Meritocracy "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The Ivies are private schools that get billions of dollars in tax-payer funded federal research money every year and enjoy non-profit tax-free status on their donations and investments.

If they are privates and are going to discriminate based on legacy status etc., why the hell should they receive tax-payer funded research money to hire top professors and gain worldwide prestige, just to turn around and give easy admittance to wealthy donors? It's a literal handout to the wealthy and a golden ticket to a lifetime of career/social pedigree for their offsprings.

Want to admit students based on how much their parents have donated, or legacy status? Fine, you don't receive any tax-payer funded research money - that goes directly only to schools that don't discriminate based on such non-academic social class system factors - Berkeley, Caltech, MIT, Hopkins, etc.

As for the world not revolving around STEM majors with 1590s, believe it or not - universities have these things called "majors". Admittance to STEM major should revolve around the STEM merits of the candidate, not how wealthy their parents are or how good they are at horse riding.[/quote]

You are tilting at windmills my friend. How would you effect this change? Through legislative action? When most of the US Senate is made up of folks with either undergrad or graduate degrees from the very schools you wish to see stripped of funding?

Good luck I guess. [/quote]

Sure, changing it legislatively may be difficult.

But the idea that one can't criticize the admission policies of top privates because they are private - when they receive billions of dollars in tax-payer funded direct cash-handouts every year from the federal government, not to even mention the tax subsidies for donations and endowments - is idiotic.

They take your tax-payer money from working 40 hours+ per week to build worldwide prestige and repute, and then shut your children out of their schools, not based on your child's academic merits, but because you yourself, as the parent, are not wealthy enough to have attended the school yourself or donate to buy a seat.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics