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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When is this magical time when getting into Yale was not easier if you were rich and well connected?  Just like Sidwell doesn’t have to let in a representative mix of high school-age people who live in the DMV, Yale doesn’t have to let in a representative mix of college-age people.  It’s not a moral failing on the part of either institution.   They are businesses and have to take people who can pay for their services, both in tuition and in donations.  If they can take some people who can’t because they can collect extra money from those who can, great.   But, it’s baffling that we think that private colleges work any differently than private schools.  These are not public goods.  They do not need to have fair or equitable entry requirements.   They must abide by the law, but public school students are not a protected class and the colleges are free to take the students they want to take.  [/quote]

Yale, Harvard, Princeton... could all exist indefinitely on their endowments. The idea that the paying students support the financial aid students is true for a lot of schools, but not these ones  [/quote]

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