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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting.  
 
"The committee offered dozens of recommendations, like expanding financial aid, reducing admissions preferences, zealously protecting free speech and adjusting grading policies."
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So, they have identified the things that make it messed up and the want to recommend doing more of those? Ok.[/quote]

Expanding financial aid is going to make it more messed up?  Reducing admissions preferences is going to make it more messed up?[/quote]

Preferences for who or why? More international? More unqualified? If it was working why are universities “really messed up?” Seems like they’d be saying it’s never been better.[/quote]

Preferences for advantaged people which probably mostly translates to financially advantaged.[/quote]

How can they have been doing that at the same time as having a preference for FGLI? Clearly that preference comes at the expense of the other preferences. 50-60% are already on financial aid. Do you think it should be 100%? [/quote]

Wake up.  Places like yale are hardly infested with fgli students.  There are some not a lot.  And do you even know the sticker price?  Yes, most families would need financial assistance to be able to send students to a place that expensive.   The fact that 40% don't need aid is exactly part of the problem.[/quote]

I can't keep DCUM straight. Either Yale is all private school kids or all FGLI[/quote]

It's not really difficult.  Assuming a quick Google search is more or less correct, It's 37% private school kids and 19% fgli.   That is from a population where 10% of high school seniors are from private schools and over 50% are from fgli homes.  If those stats are correct, you can see why people think things are fancy private universities are  tilted towards advantaged kids.[/quote]

You know all private school kids don’t pay full freight too, right?[/quote]

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