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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard/Stanford or bust. the rest are for dumb losers...[/quote]

Jokes Aside, As a parent who will most probably have to pay full price for a kid to attend a private school, my spouse and I have decided not to give money to schools that are rated poorly for "fostering diversity of viewpoints" and "valuing freedom of speech". We have been following how the elite schools handle these issues based on the controversies on campus and have pretty much eliminated HYPS from the mix of schools that our child will apply to. There are too many good schools in the mix to let our money go to administrations that have policies that we seriously disagree with.

Harvard's administration seems to be specially egregious in this respect. 
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Dear Parent,

We regret losing the opportunity to add your child to the ranks of the 37,000 applicants we rejected this year and will attempt to solider on somehow, though our institution's future viability has been thrown into serious doubt by your disagreement with our practices.

Sincerely,
Harvard's egregious administration

P.S. I have pretty much eliminated supermodels from the mix of women I will date.[/quote]

HYPS makes a lot of sense for students who qualify for very good need based financial aid. Others just apply for the prestige and bragging rights. When you are going to fork over a lot of cash to an institution, it is foolish to send your money to folks who will use it to advance policies that you abhore, specially when there are other good options. Having said that, if my kid got a huge financial discount to attend one of these schools, s/he would definitely apply and go if accepted. There are schools that reject over 85 to 90% of their applicant pool, that my child will probably apply to.

These four have just gotten way too arrogant on the strength of their endowment. The administrators thus care primarily about keeping their jobs by pandering to a vocal minority of current students and ignore the alums who have helped build up those fat endowments. We will have to wait and see how alums react to these whacky campus policies and rules. Meanwhile we are going to vote with our pocket books and hope that sooner or later a  Tsunami similar to the one that destroyed Weinstein will kick some of these administrators from office and usher in some much needed change[/quote]

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