Do we know Jared’s record in high school? Did Golden see his app?
And do we realize all major donors are coddled, hoping for more $?
“When I pressed further, he hung up. We haven’t spoken since.” Is this supposed to be a proof?
Guardian article: "How did ‘less than stellar’ high school student Jared Kushner get into Harvard? "
Harvard was right to recognize and develop his potential, already at 35 he is a wealthy businessman and top advisor to an incoming President.
Well, the SIL status plays more into that than his years at Harvard I would say. 
How much of that is due to his own efforts and how much of that is a factor of winning the genetic lottery in being born to a wealthy family and marrying into another?
There aren’t too many American families with $2.5 million dollars…or even a tiny fraction of that…much less ones which could make a donation of that amount to one institution.
Maybe being a Harvard man was crucial to his marriage prospects.
If you start on third base that doesn’t mean you hit a triple.
Which is why this specific admission decision rates a, ‘So what?’
No different than bringing in a star qb.
A school with an endowment the size of Harvard’s does not need to do this-period.
^Do billionaires ever stop collecting another few million here and a few million there?
@sorghum - some do. The great–and admirable–Steve Wozniak, for one. Witness also [the pledge](The Giving Pledge - Wikipedia)…
Lol…
He was born rich and married rich. There is no evidence to my mind that shows that either his status as a “wealthy businessman” or “top advisor” are the result of anything other than that.
There’s no reason to show that Ivanka is either, that I know of. Trump is a big supporter of eugenic ideology (and no, this is NOT a Hitler comparison. I can make that argument but this is not it.). He believes that he was born better than others because he was born rich and, by extension, his kids are the smartest people he knows because he has the “best brain” of anyone he knows.
Ironic considering by all accounts, he was known much more among his childhood peers for getting into serious trouble in school in K-8 at the private Kew Forest School than for his intelligence. One of his former childhood classmates at Kew Forest said Trump got into trouble with the school authorities so often that getting disciplined/sent to the dean’s office was known by their peers as “getting Donald Trumped”.
His disciplinary antics got to such a serious point his parents felt the need to ship him off to the NYMA…a military themed boarding school to “straighten him out”. While his behavior improved a bit under the strict military-themed environment, none of his classmates at NYMA, Fordham U, or UPenn-Wharton remembered him for his intelligence/academic achievements.
Harvard (obviously) disagrees with you.
^^^ That’s how Harvard got the endowment of its size…
It’s unusual, though, that Golden claims a pledge just before being admitted. That’s very late in the game. And it’s unusual that a pledge would have that much pull. It’s not cash in the bank. Some info is missing.
Sarcasm on CC never quite works.
The author of the book claims to know it.
Being a development admit is nothing new. Whats the “big news”? If he could not have hacked it he would have flunked out. He didn’t. Others here have reported their own less than stellar HS academic experiences but ultimate success in college, even if they had to start out at a lower tier school and transfer after they improved their grades. Some have even gone on to become college consultants!
I said it before, does the low cost of buying an admission surprise anyone else? $2.5M wouild be tax deductible. At today’s rate, it only cost them $1.5M. I’d say restrict this non-profit thing for higher ed and use the tax gained to fund state uni. They don’t need that much money other than to chest thumping and state u’s, on the other hand, are starving.
In today’s dollars, it would cost them $3.6M, @iglooo. Inflation.