Help! need donation strategy to ensure admission

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Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:32:47 +0000

acadec:

that’s a stupid argument. simply because an action is popular does not make it any less disgusting.



That was inane. The reason buying a small number of kids their way in is not disgusting is because it is the mechanism by which a ton of other kids are supported through financial aid, the way new programs are created, new buildings built, better professors hired… need I go on?

You call it disgusting that a top school with such resources sells a certain number of places. I call it pragmatism. Why not sell 10 places in a class of 1100 to give the other 1090 a far, far richer experience? I can firmly say that the only ones who would object are the people reacting out of a) jealousy of the ability to get in or b) worried that they are one of the 10 displaced. Get over it.