Ann Coulter: Free Felicity Huffman!

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ANN COULTER20 Mar 2019

Poor Felicity Huffman is being raked over the coals for paying a lousy $15,000 to get her daughter extra time to take the SAT.

Jared Kushner’s father paid $2.5 million to get him into Harvard — and arranged for two of his beneficiary politicians, Sens. Ted Kennedy and Frank Lautenberg, to make calls on his offspring’s behalf.

“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it,” a former administrator at Jared’s private high school told Daniel Golden, author of the 2006 book, The Price of Admission. “There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard.”

Welcome to the baby boom’s remaking of college admissions!

For decades, going to college was a matter of social class, not IQ, talent or merit. From 1900 to 1960, only a tiny percentage of Americans even went to college, about 2 to 5 percent until well after World War II.

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[Maj. Bill Martin]

This is just a terrible argument.

Large donations made to a college as a means of gaining a kid's admission benefit the university and student body as a whole.  That donation means the school can hire more professors, or have a new student center, athletic field, or buy more research equipment.   If schools stopped accepting those large donations, they'd have to charge even more in tuition to make up for the lost revenues.

In contrast, private bribes paid to individual school employees don't benefit anyone except those individual employees.  There's no new student center or other use of those funds that even arguably benefits anyone else.  It's just flat-out fraud for personal gain.

[goatprairie]

This is just a terrible argument.

Large donations made to a college as a means of gaining a kid's admission benefit the university and student body as a whole.  That donation means the school can hire more professors, or have a new student center, athletic field, or buy more research equipment.   If schools stopped accepting those large donations, they'd have to charge even more in tuition to make up for the lost revenues.

In contrast, private bribes paid to individual school employees don't benefit anyone except those individual employees.  There's no new student center or other use of those funds that even arguably benefits anyone else.  It's just flat-out fraud for personal gain.

A private college can admit anyone they choose to. Tax-payer sponsored colleges and universities are different.
Nevertheless, our so-called elite colleges claiming to admit only qualified students are perpetuating a fraud.  People have known for probably as long as there's been colleges that money will get certain candidates accepted into places where they didn't earn the right.
But again, these are private colleges.  If they want to put some Hollyweird star's kid on the tennis team when she can hardly hit the ball over the net, that's their right.
They just have to quit being hypocrites about only accepting the best qualified.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

This is just a terrible argument.

Large donations made to a college as a means of gaining a kid's admission benefit the university and student body as a whole.  That donation means the school can hire more professors, or have a new student center, athletic field, or buy more research equipment.   If schools stopped accepting those large donations, they'd have to charge even more in tuition to make up for the lost revenues.

In contrast, private bribes paid to individual school employees don't benefit anyone except those individual employees.  There's no new student center or other use of those funds that even arguably benefits anyone else.  It's just flat-out fraud for personal gain.

And? So?

At a certain level it's how FDA approves which new drugs are fit for Your new infant to consume.