The father of a Princeton student told me that his son received an A in a class, his son was always the top score in the class, usually ranging in the 80%s, everyone that is registered got atleast a B no matter how they did. He also told me the instant his son got accepted they started pumping him for money, Princeton Parent Safaris etc.
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In that book, who illegally paid what to whom?
No, it isn't how Kushner got in. His father made a LEGAL donation to the school. There is no evidence that there was any cheating, fake test scores, or the such with Kushner. Anyone that hasn't known that you can buy your way into a prestigious school must live in Bedrock.
I was trying to slowly get him to admit the difference - you took the whole fun out of it!
This right, his daddy didn’t pay a middle man to get his kid into a college he wouldn’t have otherwise been admitted to. Jared’s daddy paid the school directly. I don’t see the real difference. In both cases money displaces a deserving student.
You don't see a difference of cheating on SAT/ACT tests, faking sports participation, and bribing coaches versus outright buying the slot by making a donation. In one of these instances the schools had specific knowledge of what was happening.
While I don't think either method should be tolerated the "wink wink, we have to let him in, his dad paid for a new library" isn't as bad as having someone else take an admissions test and pay a coach to say there is athletic interest in the student.
The only difference is in who is getting paid. Both should be illegal unless colleges want to have a criteria for buying your way in. If connected people with insane money can buy their undeserving little bastards into the Ivy League, a not so well connected, not as filthy rich person should be able to do the same. That fact that bribing a school official with gifts and donations is ok, but bribing an athletics coordinator is wrong is just dumb.
You seem to conveniently leave out the test cheating, score doctoring and fake athletic connections in your comparison. If the school, as an institution, is willing to accept gifts for slots that is their doing, thus legal. Just as making available slots to legacy applicants is their doing and also legal. An illegal coordinated cheating, lying, bribing scheme is completely and totally different and illegal. But I guess you can't or choose not to see it.
I’m not leaving out anything. Both are wrong and require someone to trade a spot at the school for a gift. The only difference is that one is technically legal.
