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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You pay to play. It's so wrong that Jared Kushner's entry is legitimate because his dad paid Harvard directly while Zhao will be investigated because he paid the fencing coach (by buying his house above market value). Both were buying entry into Harvard. It shows how corrupt the American system is once you scratch below the surface. [/quote]

Are you really stupid enough to equate these two scenarios?[/quote]

NP.  I don’t think it’s stupid to draw a parallel.  Both are morally corrupt.  It’s just that one scenario is legal.[/quote]

Don't like either scenario but his is how I see it.  Donations like those made by Kushner's family typically benefit the university as a whole - perhaps a new building, expensive new science equipment, an endowed chair for a professor, etc.  Perhaps it frees up money that the university was going to spend regardless on those things and that money can now go to a scholarship or renovating another building or something else.  The only people that benefited from buying the house over market price were the fencing coach and perhaps the son.
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There was also the charity donation when Zhao's older son was applying.  Little hard to parse, but Zhao donated to a charity which then donated $100K the Harvard fencing coach's new foundation.  He kept the foundation running a couple years, paying himself a $22K salary and spending administrative fees and covering travel expenses.  The foundation then donated the remainder to some local charities and closed shop.  There'd be some benefit to the final charities, but the bulk is money laundering.[/quote]

So this definitely is a Harvard problem if there was so little oversight of the coach.

It's their tough luck that the whole college/recruiting investigation is being run out of the US Attorney's office in Boston.  Boo hoo.[/quote]

I think this is the main thing. Harvard (and other elite colleges) had a side door, with or without Singer, and apparently for years (decades?). It's a bad look for them.[/quote]

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