Take Aways From This Year's Admissions

JHS
Mon, 22 May 2017 21:16:26 +0000

$2 million was a long time ago, and it was long before Charles Kushner went to prison. It would take a lot more than that to get a Jared Kushner into Harvard now. People who bought their way into Harvard aren’t taking up a lot of space there.

I think Jared Kushner turns out to have been a fine “investment” on Harvard’s part. Not only did his father provide an immediate return to the university, but he has had the kind of career Harvard hopes its graduates have – he proved a competent successor when his father was convicted, he played a public civic and business role in the nation’s commercial capital, he had a big role in getting his father-in-law elected President, and he is a key figure in the U.S. government and its international relations. So what if he didn’t earn all of those opportunities on “academic grounds,” either. If he does anything worthwhile with them (and Robert Muller doesn’t send Kushner fils where he sent Kushner pere) Harvard comes out even farther ahead.